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Con Edison Cons Its Way Out of Paying Traffic Tickets
The massive energy company is bilking the city of tens of thousands of dollars in potential camera-issued traffic violations by obscuring its trucks’ license plates.
March 1, 2024
‘A Joke’: New City Rules Would Give More Idlers A Free Pass
And it's not the first time the agency, which has "environmental protection" in its name, has added obstacles to reining in polluters.
February 7, 2024
Can NYC Use Unpaid Tickets to Force Corporate Polluters to Electrify Fleets?
Companies that owe the city millions of dollars in unpaid idling violations may electrify their fleet to get out from under the debt in deals with the city.
January 8, 2024
‘Crazy Nonsense’: City Now Allows (Cough) Plateless Vehicles to (Cough) Break Idling Law
City environmental protection officials are now refusing to punish owners of commercial vehicles for idling if the trucks don't have license plates — a move that has enraged citizen enforcers.
December 5, 2023
After a Century of Flooding on Brooklyn’s Fourth Avenue, City Says It’ll Be Fixed … By 2033
Brooklyn's flooding Fourth Avenue has memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.
October 6, 2023
NYPD All But Abandons Idling Enforcement Amid Climate Crisis
The number of idling violations issued by NYPD is down 99 percent from five years ago, according to publicly available stats.
September 5, 2023
TEN YEARS AFTER: Despite Warnings and Panels and Reports, New York is Not Ready for a Sandy Sequel
City and state officials have simply not done enough.
October 28, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: Council’s Transportation Chair’s Car Sped Through School Zones 17 Times in a Year
Do as I say, not as I do.
April 13, 2022
Op-Ed: It is Unconscionable that the Department of Environmental Protection Wants to Reduce Air Quality
The agency needs to live up to its name.
March 6, 2022
AIRBORNE ASSAULT: City Considers Weakening Idling Law that Will Lead to More Pollution, Advocates Say
What part of environmental protection do they not get?
March 4, 2022
