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Black smoke from dirty heating oil in NYC.
Isabelle Silverman
Soot pollution in New York City causes more than 3,000 deaths every year from lung and heart disease.
Buildings burning the two dirtiest heating oils create more soot than all the City's cars and trucks combined.
Switching to cleaner heating fuels is the largest step we can take to cut this pollution.
Our campaign to phase out dirty heating oil in New York City reached a major milestone with Mayor Bloomberg's announcement of the clean heat rule to end use of the worst heating fuels. (Rule in brief [PDF] and full text [PDF])
We've collected case studies of five buildings across the city that switched to clean heat and saved money on heating costs.
While every building is unique, we believe that most can achieve a payback period of less than 5 years from fuel cost savings, efficiency enhancements and reduced operating and maintenance expenses.
Andrew Darrell
New York Regional Director
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Isabelle Silverman
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259 deaths could be prevented each year.
$733M would be saved in annual health care costs.
2M fewer metric tons of greenhouse gases would be emitted – the equivalent of 441,000 fewer cars on the road.
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