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THE CITY OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE MAYOR NEW YORK, N. Y.

10007 EXECUTIVE ORDER No.
52 6, 2020 February STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY AGAINST ADDITION OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT EXPANDS THE SUPPLY OF FOSSIL FUELS IN NEW YORK CITY WHEREAS, we face a clear global climate caused emergency, primarily by the burning of fossil fuels; and WHEREAS, our planet, we all have a moral, human beings, economic, and future generations; health, and fellow public protect and security imperative to act to WHEREAS, we must act, and act together at every level, as individuals, as cities, and as a global community; and WHEREAS, climate unaffordability, housing, by cities wealth insecurity, transit, of public the accessibility economic action can also address and health of inequality, the expanding including wealth and other major urban challenges; rising gap, the lack of aging infrastructure, disparities, issues and WHEREAS, Executive Order 26 of2017 the Mayor declared that, to protect our residents through from the effects and all human beings goals of the Paris Agreement, that support Celsius Celsius goals of holding levels above pre-industrial and of pursuing and levels; above pre-industrial which entered the critical of climate the increase change, into force on November New York City will adopt the principles actions 4, 2016, to deliver and climate to below 2 degrees to 1.5 degrees in the global to limit average the temperature temperature increase efforts WHEREAS, pursuant fossil fuels and toward influence "l.5°C: Aligning Order 26 of 2017, stated energy," renewable the five boroughs and that, and beyond throughout to Executive that "New York City must transition away from using "New York City must leverage furthermore, and its borders;" its New York City with the Paris Climate Agreement," published WHEREAS, the fossil fuel industry of deception and denial accountable about the risks New York City is committed for the damages of burning fossil fuels; and to divest caused its pension by its actions funds from fossil fuels and to hold and its decades-long campaign WHEREAS, in April 2019, New York City released
 committed neutrality our climate crisis to confront and l 00% clean electricity; and and end.our reliance OneNYC 2050, NYC's Green New Deal, and on fossil fuels in part by achieving carbon WHEREAS, adding infrastructure to expand the supply of fossil fuels will put the City on track to overshoot the Paris Agreement targets; and WHEREAS, the City remains the provision ensuring including use of fossil fuels can be phased of heat during out; cognizant of the need to maintain cold weather, public existing safety and welfare, infrastructure related to the until NOW, THEREFORE, by the power vested in me as Mayor of the City of New York, it is hereby ordered: Section that New York City's infrastructure the transfer within l. Commitment ambitious its energy to Ending the Expansion emissions shed that expands the supply goals are achieved, the City will not support the addition of fossil fuels via pipelines or terminals of for capacity.
of fossil fuels or via the construction of new fossil-fuel-based electric generation of Fossil-Fuel-Related Infrastructure.

To ensure Section 2.

Comprehensive Review of Processes Fuels.

Reliance or Allowing that Office 31, 2020, the Mayor's Infrastructure for Approving on Fossil review infrastructure By December that identifies that expands which there is reliance to the use of such infrastructure City agencies' of fossil fuels or and evaluates the supply on the use of fossil fuels.
Such and indirect actions, shall conduct of or Extends the Supply Expands of Sustainability processes contributes review including This review purposes shall consider real estate for approving to extending direct transfers, easements, or allowing the period agency a comprehensive additional of time during actions shall also propose Order.

of this Executive any regulatory related or purchases that facilitate changes or legislative the addition that would help to further the of such infrastructure.
Section 3.

Regulatory of Fossil energy that expands the Supply that oversee Expands bodies infrastructure capacity, generation infrastructure the supply or terminals Interventions Fuels.

City agencies for the transfer the City's that speak on behalf the City's of fossil fuels via pipelines, of fossil fuels.

Must Articulate shall articulate Opposition of the City before regulatory to Infrastructu re That opposition new fossil-fuel-based electric to the development of 4.

Agency Cooperation.
Agency Cooperation.

Section heads are directed economic potential agency account fuel supply, Order's and to assess date.

effective to cooperate impacts, potential In implementing fully with the Mayor's Office of Sustainability, with this Executive to take into and complying Order, all to consider the need to prevent disruption of the City's fossil existing conflicts with contract requirements in existence as of this Executive Section 5.

Effective Date.

This order shall take effect immediately.

Mayor