The City of Newburgh on March 22 formally approved a partnership with Ruff Ryders 2 the Rescue after months of preliminary discussions about the program. Two of the group s buses have been sitting outside the Newburgh Armory Unity Center to increase visibility in the community.
Newburgh Mayor Torrance Harvey said in February that, through a mutual friend s introduction, Harvey had multiple meetings with the father of two brothers who founded Ruff Ryders Inc., including Jaoquin Waah Dean. Discussions began with interest in development in Newburgh and blossomed into talks about bringing in the foundation to help with violence and crisis intervention, as well as starting youth entrepreneurial and mentorship programs.
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New York U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney were in Newburgh Monday announcing legislation to protect firefighters from PFAS.
The two Democratic federal lawmakers were at the City of Newburgh Fire Department, where they announced the PFAS Firefighter Protection Act. Gillibrand says the legislation would build on New York State’s efforts to restrict foams containing PFAS. It also sets deadlines for airports for prohibiting the use of PFAS firefighting foams.
“It would put much needed new prohibition in place against using firefighting foam that has PFAS chemicals,” Gillibrand says. “It would create a federal ban on the manufacture, importation and sale of firefighting foam that contains PFAS within two years of enactment.”
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