Legislation for Clean Air - press conf. MON.

What: Press Conference to Support City Council Legislation for Clean
Air in New York City

Who: Hosted by INFORM with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Ny
League of Conservation Voters, UPROSE, WEACT, and New York business
leaders including Douglas Durst.

When: Monday, April 4, 2005 at 1pm

Where:On the steps of City Hall, New York, NY

Dear Friends and Supporters,

We are writing to invite you to a press conference INFORM is hosting Monday, April 4th at 1 PM on the steps of City Hall. The conference is being held to support a City Council legislation to update the City’s alternative fuel purchasing law.

The pending City Council legislation, if passed, would mean a major step forward in this city’s use of advanced hybrid as well as natural gas vehicles. The boldest measure would mandate, for the first time, a strong shift to purchasing natural gas trucks by the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) for the nation’s largest refuse and recycling fleet (2,500 trucks). DSNY would have to increase the percentage of new trucks purchased as natural gas powered from 30% to 50% between 2007
and 2011. New Yorkers would get:

•vastly improved air to breathe
•a reduced rate of asthma (which is now 30% higher than the national average) and lower cancer risk
•an improved quality of life with 50 to 98% quieter trucks (important especially during those early morning hours!), free of noxious diesel
fumes, traveling through city communities
•enhanced fuel security for one of the city’s most essential services (by reduced reliance on risky foreign oil-derived fuels).

At this press conference, INFORM will be joined by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Defense, the NY League of Conservation Voters,WEACT, UPROSE, and New York business leaders including Douglas Durst. Elizabeth Yeampierre from UPROSE will be bringing several children who suffer from asthma in her Brooklyn community. One will be speaking. We will also have a modern, operating natural gas truck on display.

We hope you will join us because it is important to show visible support to City Hall and to the press that passing this bill is a crucial step in improving the quality of life for every single one of us and every single New Yorker out there, and for reshaping this City’s environmental future.

INFORM
120 Wall St. 14th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Ph: 212 361-2400
Fax:212 361-2414
Website: www.informinc.org