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09/01/2003 Archived Entry: "This makes sense."
This makes sense.
I rarely agree with Newsday's editorials. They seem to be downright naive at times, and often too willing to advocate the status quo. But this time they've gotten it right, and it's a damned good idea. If the White House wants to dispel suspicions that they short-changed New Yorkers on the WTC cleanup, this is the way to go.
If the White House is wondering how it can regain the credibility it frittered away with its lack of candor on air quality in downtown Manhattan after 9/11, we have an idea.It should swallow its pride and have the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency order a new round of tests to make sure the first cleanup program worked. The initial scrub-down had some obvious flaws:
The indoor effort mainly looked at living spaces south of Canal Street in Manhattan. But as Newsday pointed out more than a year ago, the plume of smoke and dust that billowed from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, didn't just cover lower Manhattan. Satellite photos show it cut a wide swath over parts of Brooklyn as well.
While the indoor program, run by the EPA, ultimately cleaned up more than 4,000 apartments in lower Manhattan, it paid scant attention to work spaces in the area. Do contaminants still lurk in some office buildings - in perhaps the carpets and drapes and areas that never got a thorough cleaning after 9/11? It's a question that deserves a solid answer.
It saddens me that as much as I'd like to see another round of EPA testing, the reality is that the people in the White House would sooner drink scalding bleach than endorse such an idea.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
besides, even if they did hold 20 more rounds of testing, i wouldnt believe a damn one of them. everything these people say is a lie, every bill they pass is named the exact opposite of the thing it is designed to do, we dont even know the beginning of whats really going on. if the american people knew what was really going on (whatever that is) im sure it would be bad enough to cause a revolution, or at least rioting followed the national guard massacreing people, and then more rioting
Posted by justin @ 09/02/2003 01:19 PM NY
