Reply #21: EPA Hit With Ground Zero Lawsuit/NEW YORK, March 11, 2004 [View All]

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GEE IT IS ABOUT TIME THE MSM CATCHES UP ON WHAT WE IN NJ AND NY HAVE KNOWN ..for a very long time!!

from my files...fly

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/11/health/main60...

EPA Hit With Ground Zero Lawsuit
Residents, Area Workers Say EPA Misled Them About Air Quality

NEW YORK, March 11, 2004
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The firefighters, police and others who spent months at Ground Zero searching for bodies weren't the only ones exposed to unusual pollutants in the air. (AP)


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Many of the estimated 30,000 to 40,000 people who volunteered or worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of Sept. 11 have reported developing health problems that were still present two years later.
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(AP) Residents and workers in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, saying the agency improperly let thousands of people return to their homes and businesses after the World Trade Center collapsed.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan accused the agency of making misleading statements about air quality after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

The lawsuit, which seeks class-action status, said the EPA left people "unnecessarily exposed to potentially hazardous levels of asbestos and possibly other carcinogens and toxic substances."

It accused the agency and its leaders, including former EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, of "a shockingly deliberate indifference to human health."