Archive of News (2006)
E.P.A. to Get A Scolding On 9/11 Dust
The City Council is poised to reject the federal government’s latest effort to clean thousands of apartments contaminated by dust from the collapse of the twin towers, calling the plan ”technically and scientifically flawed.”
Whitman Defends Finding on Air After 9/11
Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, yesterday rejected as ”completely inaccurate” a ruling by a federal judge that found she had misled people near the World Trade Center site about the risks of toxic air contamination after the Sept. 11 attack.
Public Misled on Air Quality After 9/11 Attack, Judge Says
Christie Whitman, when she led the Environmental Protection Agency, made “misleading statements of safety” about the air quality near the World Trade Center in the days after the Sept. 11 attack and may have put the public in danger, a federal judge found yesterday.