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In New York City, it’s illegal to idle a vehicle for more than three minutes. But for fifty years, it went unenforced. In 2018, City Council passed a law allowing any person to file a complaint against idling commercial vehicles and collect 25% of the $350 ticket. A small group of detail-oriented people file 90% of the complaints. They call themselves Idle Warriors and will stop at nothing to capture their video, even if it means getting into an altercation with a driver. Idle Warriors dives into the motivations that drive these environmental bounty hunters as they track tailpipe exhaust while unpacking broader questions around health, the environment, and citizen enforcement.
In New York City, it’s illegal to idle a vehicle for more than three minutes. But for fifty years, it went unenforced. In 2018, City Council passed a law allowing any person to file a complaint against idling commercial vehicles and collect 25% of the $350 ticket. A small group of detail-oriented people file 90% of the complaints. They call themselves Idle Warriors and will stop at nothing to capture their video, even if it means getting into an altercation with a driver. Idle Warriors dives into the motivations that drive these environmental bounty hunters as they track tailpipe exhaust while unpacking broader questions around health, the environment, and citizen enforcement.