[CPEO-BIF] New York City schools environmental daa disclosure law

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Release
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
February 5, 2015

NYLPI applauds City Council passage of school environmental health disclosure bill.


NYLPI applauds New York City Council for passing legislation that will require the City Dept. of Education (DOE) to inform parents promptly of any environmental test results from public schools or proposed school sites that indicate potential health threats to children.  The City Council unanimously passed the bill on January 22, 2015. On February 5, 2015, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the legislation into law.

The poster child for this bill was PS 51 in the Bronx, a school sited in a former lamp factory.  The City did no air testing when they first occupied the building.  Over a decade later, in 2011, the City finally tested the air when the DOE’s lease was up for renewal and found the presence of toxins well in excess of State health standards.  Yet the DOE kept kids and staff in the school for another 6 months, never alerting them to the test results.

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For the entire release, see
https://www.nylpi.org/nylpi-applauds-city-council-passage-of-school-environmental-health-disclosure-bill/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org




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