City Hall tightens cooling-tower oversight after Legionnaires' outbreak
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NYC City Council Speaker Julie Menin introduced a bill to require proactive cooling-tower testing and automatic disinfection, plus a summer hotline, as the Legionnaires' outbreak on the Upper East Side sickens dozens and has claimed multiple lives; the council will also hold an oversight hearing in September to scrutinize Mayor Mamdani's response and push for real-time cooling-tower compliance data.
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