[CPEO-BIF] New York city schools

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Not in your schoolyard?
Mayor’s brownfields plan draws scrutiny

by patrick arden
New York Metro
MAY 7, 2007

BRONX. On Earth Day, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled his sweeping 
program to make the city environmentally friendly by the year 2030. 
Among his 127 initiatives was a plan to clean up 7,600 polluted acres.

Four days later, a small group of politicians, environmentalists and 
educators took to the steps of City Hall to express a concern: While 
they supported the mayor’s goal to rehabilitate brownfields, they were 
afraid his ambitious aims might be tied to the city’s plan to open at 
least 100 new schools by the end of 2009.

Mayoral spokesperson Dawn Walker told Metro the School Construction 
Authority’s new capacity project is not part of Bloomberg’s 2030 
brownfields program, but the group gathered at City Hall had already 
sensed some troubling trends.

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For the entire article, see
http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Not_in_your_schoolyard/8400.html

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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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