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.


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