The City of Yonkers Green Policy Task Force will announce that 124 Yonkers school buses are now retrofitted with pollution control devices and that 185 anti-idling signs are now installed in the bus areas at all Yonkers Public Schools as part of a $300,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant to reduce airborne engine pollutants and promote clean air.
EVENT: 8:30 a.m. - Meet at Beczak Environmental Education Center, 35 Alexander Street, Yonkers for coffee and donuts.
9:00 a.m. - Participants will board two of the retrofitted buses to ride parade-style to the Foxfire School, 1061 N. Broadway (near Executive Blvd.), Yonkers.
9:15 a.m. - Press conference commences with a group of 4th and 5th grade students who are undertaking environmental initiatives at Foxfire.
10:00 a.m. - The bus returns to Beczak
