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Eric Adams Is ‘Getting Stuff Done’ on Climate Law — For the Real Estate Lobby

The mayor is putting New York City’s landmark climate and jobs law in jeopardy, our columnist argues.

Pete Sikora· September 25, 2023

This article is published in our opinion section. Pete Sikora directs climate advocacy at New York Communities for Change and is a member of the Local Law 97 Advisory Board.

“A simple patch to the delay program would be to require landlords who make use of it to reduce their pollution to compensate for the two lost years.”

“The law effectively requires billions of dollars of new investment across New York’s building stock, so what’s a few million through an Adams super PAC in comparison?”

Pete Sikora is the Climate & Inequality Campaigns Director at New York Communities for Change.

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