Adi Talwar
Old Putnam Trail located in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.
The mayor’s office has approved the highest funding for tree planting in half a decade, officials say, allowing the Parks Department to plant 20,000 trees a year for the next four years. But some councilmembers say that pace isn’t fast enough to keep up with extreme weather events that damage the city’s tree canopy.
The City Council’s Committee on Environmental Protection met Tuesday to discuss a newly introduced bill banning heating oil No. 4 by 2025, five years earlier than was agreed upon when Local Law 43 passed in 2010.
What exactly did state lawmakers do before starting their nearly seven-month break? Here’s a rundown.
Although some are still only high school or college age, Generation Z—generally about 25 and younger—has established itself as the most engaged generation in climate action.
Es la sexta vez que el Estado aplaza la decisión sobre la ampliación, dicha ampliación ha sido criticada por ecologistas ya que es contraria a los objetivos climáticos de Nueva York. El DEC dice que esperará hasta que la Comisión de Servicios Públicos pueda evaluar el proyecto.
Local Law 97, passed in 2019, requires buildings to lower emissions beginning in 2024. Property owners who fail to comply will face penalties calculated based upon how much their buildings’ emissions exceed the city’s benchmarks—what a new lawsuit decries as “draconian.”
This is the sixth time the state has put off a decision on the expansion, which has been criticized by environmentalists as at odds with New York’s climate goals. The DEC says it will wait until the Public Service Commission can evaluate the project.
Para 2050, las emisiones anuales de gases de efecto invernadero de la ciudad no deberían superar los 12 millones de toneladas de dióxido de carbono —y en 2020, solo los edificios representaron 34 millones de toneladas métricas. “Esto dibuja una imagen muy cruda de la cantidad de trabajo que tenemos que hacer y de cómo no se puede seguir como si nada”.
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By 2050, the city’s annual greenhouse gas emissions should be no higher than 12 million metric tons of carbon dioxide—in 2020, buildings alone accounted for 34 million metric tons. “It kind of paints a very stark picture of how much work we have to do and how it can’t just be business as usual.”
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