More than 800 lives are saved every year because New York City’s air
is the cleanest it’s been in half a century, Mayor Michael Bloomberg
announced yesterday at a news conference during Climate Week NYC. Following the statement, Bloomberg spoke at The Weather Company’s special Climate Conversation event.
“You’ve
got to make saving people’s lives a priority,” Bloomberg said during
the news conference, noting that when it comes to the health of the
city’s residents, he considers bettering the air second only to the
campaign around smoking cessation. “Our objective was to give New York
the cleanest air of any big American city,” he added during the Climate
Conversation. “We jumped from seventh to third in just three years’
time.”
Part of that success came from getting 2,700 of the
biggest-polluting buildings to switch the type of heating fuel they
burn, from a pair of oils that emit significant amounts of dangerous
pollutants to cleaner fuels. That’s more than one-quarter of the 10,000
buildings targeted, with 2,500 more actively pursuing conversions.
http://www.weather.com/news/science/environment/hundreds-lives-saved-cleaner-air-new-york-city-mayor-bloomberg-says-20130927
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