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Diss Me Cate
EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust |
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25 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Diss Me Cate EPA whistleblower says agency misled on health hazards of 9/11 dust A U.S. EPA whistleblower has gone public with accusations that the agency downplayed the health hazards of dust from the collapsed World Trade Center. EPA senior scientist Cate Jenkins -- who has long clashed with her employer -- says the agency relied on misleading test reports in 2002 and 2003. A few months after 9/11, ... |
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| Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA, US Geological Survey (all these topics) |
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Lung Out to Dry
Thousands of Manhattanites suffer post-9/11 respiratory problems |
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13 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Lung Out to Dry Thousands of Manhattanites suffer post-9/11 respiratory problems With all due respect to the Free-Floating Anxiety and War Fever afflicting many in the post-9/11 world (prescription: less talk radio), at least 15,000 people have actual medical complaints related to the attack. Many victims afflicted with "World Trade Center cough" assumed it would pass once the dust settled; instead, problems have ... |
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| Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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What, Too Busy Screwing Up New Orleans?
EPA abandons big cleanup plans near New York City's Ground Zero |
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30 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| What, Too Busy Screwing Up New Orleans? EPA abandons big cleanup plans near New York City's Ground Zero The U.S. EPA is ditching ambitious cleanup plans for post-9/11 lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, disbanding a panel of scientists, community leaders, and local officials that has met for 20 months on the matter. The panel's efforts -- to devise a comprehensive decontamination plan for homes and businesses in the path of dust ... |
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| Topics: New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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General Electric Slide
Leaked memo raises doubts about thoroughness of GE's Hudson cleanup plan |
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21 Nov 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| General Electric Slide Leaked memo raises doubts about thoroughness of GE's Hudson cleanup plan Remember the historic settlement announced last month between the U.S. EPA and General Electric? The one that would have GE clean up PCBs in the Hudson River, one of the largest industrial cleanups ever attempted? Yeah, well ... don't get your hopes up. GE intends to cap off much of the pol ... |
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| Topics: commercial and industry organizations, New York, news, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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