Commissioner Heller Announces Lifting of Air-pollution Emergency

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Commissioner Austin Heller announces the lifting of the air-pollution alert and its accompanying voluntary restrictions. The commissioner praises the cooperation of all parties concerned and emphasizes that the city "must accelerate the entire mechanism" for air quality monitoring.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


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Municipal archives id: T888

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