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‘Department of Enabling Polluters’: Clean Air Activists Slam Weakening of Idling Rule
"It's like a no-peeing section in a pool," one parent said.
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.
‘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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
