The fight to eliminate dangerous toxins, the school moved to Washington in the city – a new law to help the government pay for the massive cleanup.
School safety, health, children’s accounts allow federal funding for schools in the country of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead to chronic diseases, of course, compete.
“The council is in schools across the country, the real money will benefit New York,” said Congressman Joseph Crowley (D – Bronx / Queens), Jerrold Nadler jointly by the representative (D Ley6 – Manhattan) and all sees Mastering (South Bronx).
Before the bill, the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the city after heavy fighting.
New York, the federal government has resisted pressure to eliminate the load circuits of age from 1950 to 1978, was the legitimate use of PCBs in the building of schools toxins 740.
In the letter this month, the EPA requires that the device was removed and a problem of PCB caulking windows and doors of the school has a plan.
“It was to justify an active life and welfare of thousands of students the opportunity,” said Nadler.
“EPA to respond firmly to the failure of the city to take immediate action.”
EPA said the long-term exposure to toxins could cause brain damage to students and their teachers.
“Despite these burdens on schools and buildings throughout the country, in New York, the School District that the EPA is a great threat of unfunded mandate,” Natalie Lira Markowitz Education Department representative said the city, said the cost of cleaning 1180000000.
The city has no plans for a complete renovation, until it has finished its field trials in five schools began last year. The test is against the city, the Bronx Gonzalez, her mother Naomi in children are deprived of the Co – op City transfer products of 178 housing public schools – once the risk level of PCB contamination.
