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Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse

Gonzalez, Juan

Hardcover

Environmental StudiesGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 1565847547
ISBN13: 9781565847545
Publisher: New Pr
Published: Jun 27 2002
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.46 Depth: 7.70
Language: English

Within days of the September 11th attack in New York City, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman, together with Time Man of the Year Rudy Giuliani, reassured New Yorkers that air contaminants are either not detectable or are below the Agency's concern levels.

In fact, EPA tests taken at the time showed high concentrations of toxic materials in the air downtown, including asbestos, dioxins, and heavy metals. Con Edison and the Port Authority revealed--two months after the attack--that nearly 200,000 gallons of diesel fuel and transformer oils, much of it contaminated with low-level PCBs, had escaped beneath Ground Zero. And independent measurements of indoor air, widespread because the agency declined to test private buildings, showed astronomically higher readings.

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