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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called for several measures yesterday to help improve air quality near the World Trade Center site, including requirements for reducing emissions from heavy-duty construction vehicles there.
Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Ground Zero Air Quality
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton called for several measures yesterday to help improve air quality near the World Trade Center site, including requirements for reducing emissions from heavy-duty construction vehicles there. Senator Clinton, who conducted a hearing yesterday at the United States Customs House, near the site, also called for the federal government to track the health of people who have worked or lived at or near ground zero. She also urged the city to expand testing of indoor air quality in Lower Manhattan.
With Uncertainty Filling the Air, 9/11 Health Risks Are Debated
Five-year-old Phoebe Kaufman’s room was once filled with her artwork. Now all that remains is a single picture of a flower, which hangs by her bed. Her parents threw out everything else because paper is porous and might have absorbed dust from the collapsing World Trade Center towers that blasted into their Lower Manhattan apartment through an open window.
With Uncertainty Filling the Air, 9/11 Health Risks Are Debated
Five-year-old Phoebe Kaufman’s room was once filled with her artwork. Now all that remains is a single picture of a flower, which hangs by her bed. Her parents threw out everything else because paper is porous and might have absorbed dust from the collapsing World Trade Center towers that blasted into their Lower Manhattan apartment through an open window.
IN PERSON; Hitting Ground Zero Running
The first task Jane M. Kenny was handed was to oversee the clean-up effort at the World Trade Center. On her second day, Ms. Kenny stood by while her boss, Christie Whitman, disclosed her decision as head of the Environmental Protection Agency to pursue a $500 million dredging of the Hudson River two decades after General Electric plants dumped PCB’s into the river.
Dust Stirs Worry in Tour of a Shuttered School
When a group of teachers from the High School of Economics and Finance went back to tour their shuttered school next to the World Trade Center site, city officials assured them that it had been thoroughly cleaned. The building, which is closer than any other school to ground zero, has been closed since the terrorist attacks and is scheduled to reopen Jan. 30.
Dust Stirs Worry in Tour of a Shuttered School
When a group of teachers from the High School of Economics and Finance went back to tour their shuttered school next to the World Trade Center site, city officials assured them that it had been thoroughly cleaned. The building, which is closer than any other school to ground zero, has been closed since the terrorist attacks and is scheduled to reopen Jan. 30.
Parental Division as Downtown School Reopens
They were four blocks from ground zero, but the students returning to Intermediate School 89 yesterday were exuberant, hugging one another and clamoring to talk to reporters at the school gate.
Parental Division as Downtown School Reopens
They were four blocks from ground zero, but the students returning to Intermediate School 89 yesterday were exuberant, hugging one another and clamoring to talk to reporters at the school gate.
Senators Clinton and Lieberman to Hold Hearing on Downtown Air Quality
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut will lead a hearing in the city next month concerning the air quality at ground zero, particularly the health effects of early exposure to dust clouds from the trade center collapse, she announced yesterday.