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5-Year Deadline Sought for Ridding NYC Schools of PCBs [1]

"The federal Environmental Protection Agency and the New York City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, are both calling for replacing school light fixtures that are leaking PCBs in five years or less, putting more pressure on the Bloomberg administration to speed up its planned time line of 10 years."

Mireya Navarro reports for the New York Times' Green blog April 12, 2011. [2]

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Source: Green (NYT) [2], 04/13/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/5-year-deadline-sought-ridding-nyc-schools-pcbs [2] http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/5-year-deadline-sought-for-ridding-schools-of-pcbs/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81