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About 9/11 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
9/11 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION is a community-based organization of residents, parents and occupational safety, public and environmental health advocates, formed in April 2002 to end the federal Environmental Protection Agency cover-up, 9/11 EA fights for a comprehensive clean-up, and demands medical monitoring and health care for everyone harmed by WTC contamination.
9/11 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and all contributions are tax deductible in accordance with IRS regulations.
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How Could Anyone Get Sick from Breathing Air That Was Safe (Because We Said it Was)? WBAI Health Action, September 10, 2007 -- "scientifically questionable" claims, as reported in two brand-new major-media articles. The program will remain available for download on the Internet for 90 days in the WBAI website, or webcast at wbai.org
The August 18th 7 Alarm Fire at Deutsche Bank Building had public health consequences, and a mob-related firm was in charge.... WBAI Health Action, August 27, 2007 -- Jonathan Bennett hosts a discussion of the situation by Mary Perillo, downtown resident, and David Kotelchuck, professor emeritus of environmental health at Hunter College and co-chair of safety and health for the Professional Staff Congress.The program will remain available for download on the Internet for 90 days in the WBAI website, or webcast at wbai.org
The steam pipe Explosion on Manhattan's East Side release Asbestos, but just how much? Asbestos is banned, true or false? FALSE!! WBAI Health Action, August 13, 2007 -- Jonathan Bennett hosts a discussion, on how and why asbestos is no,t and never has been, banned in the U.S., what public health activists and members of Congress are doing about it, and of the horrible toll of disease and death that is still being inflicted on the American public by immoral corporations and politicians. The program will remain available for download on the Internet for 90 days in the WBAI website, or webcast at wbai.org
After the Con Edison steam pipe explosion: Is the air in midtown really safe to breathe, or is some of the world's most valuable real estate contaminated with asbestos? WBAI Health Action, July 30, 2007 -- Environmental consultant Maggie Clarke and midtown resident and Community Board 6 member Joe Parrish to discuss how after 9/11 we were told "the air is safe to breathe" and now more than 20,000 people are sick from breathing it. The program will remain available for download on the Internet for 90 days in the WBAI website, or webcast at wbai.org
Hazards Posed by Demolition of 9/11-Contaminated Buildings in Lower Manhattan, WBAI Health Action, December 20, 2004, Listen to the Program
The Hazards of the Cleanup Failures in Lower Manhattan, WFSS Women's Voices, Women's Lives, October 24, 2004, Listen to the Program
EPA Cleanup Info, our Residents Advisory, a guide to getting a better clean-up of your residence from EPA
Bad Decisions, results of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) premature, unsupported announcement,shortly after 9/11/01, that "air is safe to breathe, water safe to drink" in Lower Manhattan and reasons to reallocate some of those billions committed by the federal government to remediate Lower Manhattan
Testimony before the Standing Committees on Education, Environmental Conservation, and Health of the State Assembly of New York, March 12, 2004, by Marilena Christodoulou