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November 1, 2004, 9/11 Environmental Action, the New York Committe for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) and the Sierra Club announce that the Ground Zero Community Will Continue Advocacy Urging White House to Address Unmet Needs Related to 9/11 Pollution -- Despite No Answer from EPA before Election,

October 26, 2004, On the one-year anniversary of the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s agreement to have an expert panel provide advice on steps needed to meet the unmet needs related to 9/11 pollution, a coalition of community, tenant, environmental, small business, religious and labor organizations sent a letter yesterday to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding a clear answer -- before the upcoming federal election – on what action the federal government will take to clean up 9/11 contamination and meet the health needs of the people exposed to the pollution. The letter sets out seven basic principles for cleanup and for addressing long-term health needs,
September 20, 2004, 9/11 Environmental Action, the New York Committe for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH), the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project (NYEJLP) and the Sierra Club call on the President to renew the cleanup efforts, initiate long-term medical monitoring and health care, and retract the false statements that Ground Zero pollution posed no health risks after the twin towers fell,

March 12, 2004, 9/11 Environmental Action applauds residents, workers and students filing a suit against the EPA for its failure to protect public health after 9/11/01 and demands the Bush Administration to tell the truth, get the cleanup retarted, and provide medical treatment for those affected by the fumes and dust from the towers,
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March 1, 2004, 9/11 Environmental Action states it will work with the newly created EPA Technical Review Panel while calling for the EPA to fulfill its obligation to perform representative testing and comprehensive cleanup of contamination remaining from the fall of the World Trade Center, now,

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February 18, 2003, 9/11 E.A. and the Sierra Club confront the Bush Administration's lack of disclosure and failure to act effectively to protect New Yorkers from the toxic aftermath of Osama Bin Laden's hateful attack on the World Trade Center as Karl Rove arrives to speak at the Eugene Restaurant in downtown Manhattan,
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October 20, 2003, 9/11 E.A. with other local environmental organizations hold press conference to participate in national launching of the BE SAFE Environmental Health Alliance, a nationwide campaign promoting precautionary preventive policies, spotlighting the failures of the Bush administration's failure to clean up WTC dust,
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September 15, 2003, 9/11 E.A., NYCOSH & Sierra Club bring together residents, workers, public health advocates and environmental leaders at Federal Hall in lower Manhattan to demand an investigation into the coverup of the environmental conditions and a real cleanup of the contamination caused by the September 11th attack on the World Trade Center,
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June 17, 2003 9/11 E.A. encourages David Letterman audience to boo E.P.A. Chief Christie Whitman,
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December 27, 2002 9/11 E.A. holds press conference at the E.P.A. building in NYC to protest the closing of the E.P.A. hotline for cleanup of WTC dust the very next day, maintaining that the outreach is incomplete,
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December 16, 2002 scientific experts, residents, small business owners, parents and activists will testify about the need for EPA to extend its deadline for applications for cleanup, as a result of "atrocious outreach" efforts, the likelihood of recontamination, and the limited catchment area,
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October 21, 2002 members of 9/11 Environmental Action address problems in the document, "World Trade Center Indoor Air Assessment: Selecting Contaminants of Potential Concern and Setting Health-Based Benchmarks", which allow the exposure of Lower Manhattan residents to a hundred times the cancer risk that people at Superfund sites around the country are exposed to, and provide information on the conflicts of many of the panelists and trustees of TERA, the private company contracted by E.P.A. to conduct the review,
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September 18, 2002 9/11 E.A. holds a demonstration, "Toxins in a Teapot: A Celebration of EPA Incompetence," for a proper cleanup by E.P.A. on the anniversary of the day E.P.A. Administrator Christie Whitman declared the air around the World Trade Center "safe to breathe,"
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August 9, 2002 scientists, residents and other activists from Lower Manhattan hold press conference to unveil the dangers of the E.P.A.'s new plan to clean apartments,
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June 3, 2002 9/11 E.A. demonstrates against the slipshod quality of E.P.A.'s proposed plans for the cleanup of Lower Manhattan, calling it "dangerous, incomplete, and irresponsible,"
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May 22, 2003 9/11 E.A. lobbies Congress to enlarge on the E.P.A.'s plans for the clean-up of lower Manhattan,
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May 9, 2002 Demonstration protesting the Gift of Breath Award to EPA Administrator Christie Whitman by the Children's Air Fund,
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