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Monitoring Air Quality, Empowering Communities
Would you stand in front of a truck to stop injustice? If you were pressed to contemplate such an extreme action, wouldn’t you want to have accurate information first on how serious of an injustice was being committed? I certainly … Continue reading →
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Tagged 91st Street, air quality, Asphalt Green, asthma, barge, dump, East Harlem, environment, garbage, heating oil, justice, Manhattan, MTS, New York City, particulate, solution, transfer, trash, truck, Yorkville
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Garbage Transfer Stations and Delicate Ecosystems
[This is an Op-Ed that was originally published in text-only form yesterday in the weekly free newspaper Our Town, serving Manhattan’s Upper East Side] Mayor Bloomberg has been pushing to rebuild and reopen a shuttered marine garbage transfer station (MTS) … Continue reading →
Posted in climate, opinion, water, water pollution
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Tagged 91st Street, acidification, barge, Bloomberg, East River, ecosystem, environment, garbage, justice, MTS, New York City, sea level rise, striped bass, Upper East Side, Yorkville
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