[CPEO-BIF] "Green" New York City plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New York Mayor Unveils Multi-Billion Dollar Green City Plan

Environment News Service
April 23, 2007

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg Sunday presented a plan to cope with 
climate change and a fast-growing population in a sweeping policy speech 
containing 127 separate initiatives. PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New 
York, has been in the works since December but the mayor chose to issue 
it on Earth Day to underline his goal of making America's largest city 
also the greenest by 2030.

...

"We propose to speed the clean-up of all 7,600 acres of brownfields 
still in our city – while also ensuring public health protections by 
developing new time-saving strategies, new city-specific remediation 
guidelines, and a new city brownfields office to oversee the initiatives 
and encourage community involvement," said Mayor Bloomberg.

PlaNYC calls for a new $15 million fund to support brownfield 
redevelopment and a new city office to increase resources dedicated to 
brownfield planning, testing and cleanups.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2007/2007-04-23-01.asp

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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