NYC Magazine » Greenhouse Emissions http://www.nycmagazine.com Covering all of New York City Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:03:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Mayor Bloomberg Decides To Drop Initiative To Make City Greener http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/12/05/mayor-bloomberg-decides-to-drop-initiative-to-make-city-greener/ http://www.nycmagazine.com/2009/12/05/mayor-bloomberg-decides-to-drop-initiative-to-make-city-greener/#comments Sat, 05 Dec 2009 06:14:43 +0000 Yelena Mandenberg http://www.nycmagazine.com/?p=826 Mayor Michael Bloomberg at an enironmental themed event

Recently, Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been pushing building owners (whose building are at least 50,000 square feet) to undergo audits to determine where they could cut greenhouse emissions, and pay for the renovations to make those improvements. However, after receiving intense opposition from building owners, the Mayor has left it up to the owners to decide whether or not they would like to go through with the audits.

The reason that building owners do not want to go through with these audits is because they say that the repairs would be way too costly. About 22,000 buildings would have been affected.

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