[CPEO-BIF] New York "City Opposes More Environmental Oversight Rules for Schools"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

City Opposes More Environmental Oversight Rules for Schools

By Beth Fertig
WNYC (New York CIty)
April 24, 2014

Legislation requiring the city to report more data about  
environmental testing at public schools met resistance from the  
Department of Education on Thursday because, the D.O.E. claimed, the  
requirements would be too onerous.

The bill was introduced recently to provide more oversight and  
transparency in cases where the city leases buildings. The rules for  
leased buildings are not as strict as those for buildings the city owns.

City Council member Fernando Cabrera, of the Bronx, said the  
legislation was inspired by the city's failure to promptly notify  
parents, students and staff at P.S. 51 about the presence of  
trichloroethylene, a carcinogenic airborne toxin linked to birth  
defects.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wnyc.org/story/ed-department-opposes-more-environmental- 
reporting/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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