NYC Apollo

• October 3, 2005 Mayor Bloomberg Sign 324-A “The High Performance Building” Bill. The legislation will affect approximately $12 billion in construction over the City’s ten-year capital plan including $5 billion in school construction. By significantly improving the performance of major new and renovated public capital construction projects, energy costs for these projects will decrease at least 20 to 25 percent and the waste and pollution generated by buildings will be reduced.
• NYC Apollo Public Service Commission letter on the extension and expansion, as part of Clean Energy Advocates, of the System Benefit Charge
• NYC Apollo letter to Governor Pataki urging him to protect the effectiveness and success of New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA) energy efficiency and renewable energy programs by ensuring that the system benefit charge, dedicated efficiency and renewable energy funds collected through utility bills, remains outside the legislative process.

Apollo in the News

• Green Scene in the New York Post, an article by Chris Erikson which includes a quote from NYC Apollo�s Jeremy Reiss.
• Read the “Better Building Tour” article about NYC Apollo�s High Performance Tour in City Limits.
• Read Nancy Anderson�s, a member of NYC Apollo�s Executive Committee, Letter to the Editor in the New York Times.
• Read James Quigley�s, a member of NYC Apollo�s Executive Committee, article “Environmentalism Hasn�t Died”
• Read the “Labor’s Lost Love” column on labor and electoral politics, on Los Angeles Times, February 2005
• NYC Apollo is featured in the Fall 2004 edition of YES! Magazine article Finding Opportunity in Crisis.
• “Rethinking Energy with the Economy in Mind”, a New York Times letter to the editor on August 2004.
• Read the City Limits article on the NYC Apollo launch.
• For a full inventory of National Apollo Alliance news.

Stay tuned for more NYC Apollo press in May and June 2005!

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