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IN IT FOR THE LONG HAUL: CITY RECYCLING GETS A BOOST
Cassi Feldman |
Enviros hope the Department of Sanitation’s new 20-year recycling contract will keep bottles, cans and cartons out of the trash — for good.
Enviros hope the Department of Sanitation’s new 20-year recycling contract will keep bottles, cans and cartons out of the trash — for good.
Six months after a groundbreaking agreement between the city and advocates, homeless families say little has changed.
After a fierce battle put a community service requirement for public housing residents on hold last year, the city is gearing up to start the mandate this fall.
As City Council members push a bill to save Mitchell-Lama housing, tenants in some of those subsidized developments say the legislation simply detracts from the larger effort to keep the buildings affordable.
The Bloomberg administration is urging federal housing officials to take a low-income housing complex off the auction block–and to consider giving more control to tenants of many of its unwanted properties.
As federal environmental protection officials urge cities to fill their school buses with a cleaner fuel, the Bloomberg administration is considering using regular old diesel again next year.
Environmentalists say the state’s plan to regulate air pollution won’t get the job done.
Tenant laws, brownfields, Rockefeller laws and child welfare reform vie for Albany approval.