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by JOHN HEILPRIN
[ from The
Washington Post ]
The Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog says
White House officials pressured the agency to prematurely assure
the public that the air was safe to breathe a week after the
World Trade Center collapse.
The agency's initial statements in the days following the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks were not supported by proper air quality
monitoring data and analysis, EPA Inspector General Nikki L.
Tinsley said in a 155-page report released late Thursday. Continued…
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by JIMMY BRESLIN
[ from Newsday ]
I was a few hundred yards up on Liberty Street when the Two
Tower of the World Trade Center blew. I put my nose inside
my shirt and ran through smoke that turned day into night.
In the smoke were computers, asbestos, pulverized glass, human
bodies, lead. I got on another street and one tower blew up.
Again, the air was black with a pulverized 110-story building.
I did not feel well for two months. I never said anything because
I was too embarrassed. Continued…
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