New York City pledges to convert 100 public schools from oil to electric heat.
The city is pledging billions of dollars to update infrastructure. Mayor Eric Adams made the announcement Friday at Ronald McNair School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn -- a neighborhood with above average asthma cases."No more burning dirty fuel, no more contributing to asthma," Adams said.
"The system is electric heating now. So it eliminates all the soot pollution that would be caused by the combustion, the burning of that fossil fuel," said Kizzy Charles-Guzman, from the Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice.
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