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IN her recent testimony before the House subcommittee that I lead, Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, played a shell game intended to create confusion about the federal government’s failure to protect rescue workers and others in New York after the World Trade Center towers fell on Sept. 11.
Whitman Defends Air Quality Assurances Made After 9/11
Testifying at a Congressional hearing on Monday about the government’s environmental response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, Christie Whitman staunchly defended her statements assuring the public that the air in Lower Manhattan was safe in the days immediately after the attack.
Christie’s coverup
Christie Whitman has her story and she’s sticking to it. Her story is that she’s proud of how she responded to 9/11 as Environmental Protection Agency chief. Her story is that she fully and truthfully informed New Yorkers about the health hazards generated by the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Come clean, Christie
The record is clear: After 9/11, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then led by Christie Whitman, failed to properly warn New Yorkers about the toxic air created by the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Report Says U.S. Misled City on Dust From Ground Zero
Federal environmental officials misled Lower Manhattan residents about the extent of contamination in their condominiums and apartments after the collapse of the World Trade Center, according to a preliminary report released on Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office.
Partners Bound by the Ties of 9/11
FOR two former undercover detectives in their early 40s who cheated death time and again, no day is ordinary, not anymore, and certainly not a day like this one on the shore of Long Island — a day showered with sea spray and salt air; with clam bellies in a bucket at their sides and jigs tempting stripers in the surf; with sand and sky, wind and waves, straight talk about life and mocking chatter about death.
None are so blind as those who won’t see
With each passing day, it becomes clearer that ignorance at the top of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is cultivated.
9/11 CANCER COPS
A group of 9/11 responders has contracted blood cancers at an unusually young age, and top doctors suspect the disease was triggered by an unprecedented “synergistic mix” of toxins at the World Trade Center site.
No way to treat heroes of Ground Zero
Once more, New York’s congressional representatives have had to squeeze out stopgap funding to provide medical care to thousands of sick Ground Zero workers. They secured just enough to keep the clinics open through September.
Ensuring Progress at Ground Zero
Visitors to the former World Trade Center site last year witnessed the idle construction equipment and saw only the faintest of markings where the twin towers once stood. Ground zero was a sad place made even sadder by a lack of progress.