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Making The Law, Making The Law: Suite of New Green Laws Curbs Bad Heating Oils, Boosts Recycling
We take a break from our New Domino fixation to note… some good news, actually, courtesy of the City Council.
Deep (Number) Six-ed: Biofuels Replacing Number Six Heating Sludge On UES
Number Six Heating Sludge is pretty nasty stuff and a big part of lovely images like this one. It will also soon be illegal, but what replaces that funky stuff is still an open question. At one building on the Upper East Side, the surprising answer is: biofuels.
Number Six Sludge: Now Available in Manhattan’s Greenest Neighborhood, Somehow?
Battery Park City RegattaWell, this is kind of surprising. Last week’s post on the continued use — and impending legislation to curtail said use — of mega-nasty heating sludge Number Six heating oil pinpointed upper Manhattan and the South Bronx as the neighborhoods in which ol’ Number Six was most commonly used. And while that’s still true, the Downtown Express reports that six buildings in Battery Park City, Manhattan’s most ostentatiously green residential neighborhood, are using Number Four or Number Six oil to heat their buildings. This isn’t in violation of BPC’s vaunted green building code (and isn’t mentioned in LEED’s guidelines, either), mostly because it seems like no one really thought about it until recently. Presumably, that’s going to be changing soon.
Bad Breath(e): New Study Reflects Urgent Need to Green NYC’s Black Smoke
If you’ve been on the street in New York City — and it’s doubtful you’re able to avoid that, unless you use FreshDirect more than I do — then you’ve seen the black smoke belching, all Dickensian and foul-smelling and just-plain-awful-looking, from the chimneys of some of the city’s bigger buildings. The likelihood is that you’ve breathed it in, too. And while it would certainly be a great “whodathunk” story if we could tell you that somehow all that dense black smoke was good for you, this is one of those instances where the intuitive conclusion happens to be the right one — according to a new study by New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, the soot-laden black smoke that is the main byproduct (along with heat) from so-called Number Four and Number Six Heating Oil is every bit as bad for you as it looks.
