New York's Businesses Race to Meet the City's Toughest Emissions Law
A looming deadline for large buildings has spawned an entire industry of retrofitters, consultants, and clean-energy installers.
New York's landmark law capping emissions from large buildings is reshaping the city's economy in ways few predicted: by creating thousands of jobs in the business of getting cleaner.
Retrofitting firms, energy consultants, and heat-pump installers report a surge in demand as building owners scramble to avoid penalties. The fictional firm Gotham Retrofit has grown from a dozen employees to more than two hundred in three years, most of them tradespeople trained on the job.
Some owners grumble about the cost, and enforcement questions remain. But for a growing cluster of local companies, the city's climate mandate has become the best business plan in town.
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