Climate Change News: New York City

Earlier this month, advocates, the NYC Department of Sanitation, and the City Council came to an agreement on a commercial waste zone plan that would lead to cleaner air, less pollution, safer streets, and move closer to the city’s zero waste and emission reduction goals.

As part of a new sustainability project at JFK Airport in New York City, JetBlue converted the 2 most commonly used ground support vehicle types – bag tractors and belt loaders – to plug-in electric vehicles.

We are releasing our NYC priorities as part of our 2019-2020 City Policy Agenda. We’re focusing on Combating Climate Change and Protecting People & Natural Resources.

A few communities in New York State are working on electric school bus pilot programs. As part of our Clean Buses for Healthy Niños campaign, we’re tracking these ongoing and upcoming pilot programs across New York State.

Last year, New York City Council Member Espinal spearheaded a pilot program for electric school buses, however, the buses are still not on the road. We organized a press conference with New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and the Council Member to urge the NYC Department of Education to clean its school bus fleet.

A City Council bill that requires a transition to clean school buses would improve air quality and protect children’s health.

Slowly but surely, school districts across the country are initiating programs to introduce electric school buses as a cleaner way for students to get to school.

As it works to transition to a mandatory citywide organics collection program, New York City can look to other cities for guidance. We have put together some information about organics collection in cities across North America.