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The de Blasio administration is holding the real estate industry to stricter environmental standards than itself, James Whelan, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, wrote in a blistering letter to City Hall officials.
“The City of New York is holding private building owners to standards it could never meet, because the city’s commitment is a percentage reduction of emissions across its entire portfolio,” Whelan wrote, “not a hard cap for each building as it imposed on the private sector.”
Whelan addressed the letter to Dan Zarrilli, chief climate policy adviser, and Kate Gouin, acting director of the sustainability office. The scathing words come in response to their stated opposition to a proposal in Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget that would let building owners buy renewable energy from solar and wind plants upstate to avoid paying penalties or investing in more expensive sustainability expenditures under the city’s Climate Mobilization Act.
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