As we know, unnecessary vehicle idling has health, environmental, and financial costs. Recently, New York City Mayor Mamdani and city officials recovered more than $9 million in unpaid idling fines from Amazon! (link to story) We don’t have NYC’s anti-idling law and citizen complaint hotline, but we can still do our part to turn off our cars and educate our neighbors to do the same – whether waiting for the bridge to open, outside school, or in the drive-through! Protect air quality, human health, and climate stability – 12 million gallons of fuel are wasted by unnecessary idling in the U.S. every day – half of that from passenger vehicles.
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