How?
The degree to which the document answers this query became a matter of some debate on Wednesday, as environmental experts and civic leaders broadly praised Mr. de Blasio’s goals but cautioned that details for many of the pledges remained hazy.
The mayor himself seemed to agree, to an extent.
“In this plan, we do not provide all those answers because we don’t have them all yet,” he said at one point during a news conference in the Bronx, describing his interest in exploring a subway extension in Brooklyn. (The state controls the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.)
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Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to announce his plans on Wednesday.New York City’s Environment Program Will Focus on Income InequalityAPRIL 21, 2015
The proposals, collectively called OneNYC, descend from the Bloomberg administration’s environmental program, PlaNYC, a data-heavy document that set targets and tracked progress on green-leaning efforts across the municipal landscape.
Though Mr. de Blasio has praised his predecessor’s work on this front, his retooled version has infused the program with another explicit focus: income inequality.
“This is not just about metrics; this is not just about dates or programs,” he said, though aides hastened to add later that it was very much about these things, too. “This is about human beings.”
Several environmental groups cheered the decision to marry economic and environmental policy in a single plan, calling the arrangement a logical fit.
But some wondered whether the document itself included enough meat to accompany its lofty visions.
