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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.
GROUND ZERO: AIR QUALITY; U.S. Agency Not Protecting Public Health, Officials Say
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency failed to protect the public health by not focusing more attention on indoor air quality, which continues to be a nagging issue for thousands of residents and workers near the World Trade Center site, a group of elected officials from New York City said yesterday.
GROUND ZERO: AIR QUALITY; U.S. Agency Not Protecting Public Health, Officials Say
The Federal Environmental Protection Agency failed to protect the public health by not focusing more attention on indoor air quality, which continues to be a nagging issue for thousands of residents and workers near the World Trade Center site, a group of elected officials from New York City said yesterday.
VITAL SIGNS: TRAUMA; Agency Analyzes Survivors’ Injuries
Most of those injured in the World Trade Center attack required only outpatient medical treatment, a new study finds.
VITAL SIGNS: TRAUMA; Agency Analyzes Survivors’ Injuries
Most of those injured in the World Trade Center attack required only outpatient medical treatment, a new study finds. The finding, reported in The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, gives a fairly detailed look at who was hurt in the attack and the nature of their injuries.