Going green isn’t punitive building regulations Annapolis, Md.: Kudos to Councilmember Justin Brannan (“Albany must ease the shift to greener buildings,” op-ed, March 19) for suggesting ways to ease the ability of building owners to comply with the ambitious mandates of Local Law 97, which requires billions of dollars of conversions and retrofits of their buildings to meet emission standards in a few short years. We all want to see a clean energy transition that addresses climate change, but like many other recent climate mandates, the city’s law is another cart-pulling-the-horse solution. Too much attention has been focused on a...