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- (page updated February 7, 2006)
- Our Elected Officials
and Others, even Within the EPA, Respond to the EPA's OIG Report, "Homeland
Security" and health issues
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- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton responds to the US
EPA's failure to protect New Yorkers after September 11, by pledging to "continue to
push for an investigation into the EPA's failure to establish
- an effective, science-based testing and clean-up plan
in response to the post-9/11 environmental disaster.”
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler applauds the Federal District
Court in New York for allowing key claims in a WTC-related class-action lawsuit to go
forward, "Finally, a court of law has recognized the tremendous injustice carried out
by our government in dealing with post-9/11 New York,"
- Press
Release, February 2, 2006
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- Representatives Fossella & Maloney, joined by sick workers and
health officials call for the appointment of an experienced 9/11 Health Czar to
coordinate federal response to Ground Zero health impacts, demonstrating that the three
recent deaths of first responders underscore the challenge ahead, since tens of thousands
of first responders, federal employess and residents and workers are believed to be
already suffering from health problems.
- Press Release,
January 25, 2006
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- NY Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and Congressman Jerrold
Nadler join residents, workers and community advocates in calling on the EPA to revise its
plan for testing and cleaning indoor air contamination following the September 11th
attacks and asking the U.S. General Accountability Office to investigate the EPA's failure
to establish an effective, science-based testing and clean-up plan in response to the
post-9/11 environmental disaster,
- Press
Release, December 9, 2005
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler denounces EPA's testing and cleanup plan as "a breathtaking slap at the
residents and workers of Lower Manhattan [which] [o]nce again, EPA is quite callously
demonstrating that the health and safety of those affected by 9/11 are simply not a
priority,"
- Statement,
November 29, 2005
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- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton criticzes EPA's Final "WTC Test and Clean
Plan"
- for faiings to correct the major problems identified by
EPA’s Inspector General in 2003 and preventing the WTC Expert Technical Panel from
completing its tasks,
- Statement,
November 29, 2005
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- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Congressman Jerrold Nadler
and six members of the World Trade Center Expert Technical Review Panel ("WTC
Panel"), including the panel's community and labor liaisons write a letter to U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Stephen Johnson calling for more
action and a meeting to develop a consensus sampling and cleanup plan,
- Press
Release, November 22, 2005
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- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney celebrates
the NY delgations securing House Speaker Dennis Hastert's (R-IL), agreement to
preserve 9/11 injured responder aid that was on the verge of being taken away,
- Press
Release, November 22, 2005
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- After the Senate moved Thursday to restore $125 million
of Sept. 11 aid to help injured workers, Senator Hillary Clinton described the bill as a
measure to "right an inadvertant wrong,"
- Statement,
October 27, 2005
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- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney praises Senator Clinton's and
Senator Schumer's successful effort to salvage the $125 million in federal funds
designated for 9/11 workers compensation and job retraining aid,
- Press
Release, October 27, 2005
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- Mayor Michael Bloomberg thanks the New York delegation for
its efforts to restore the $125 million rescinded by President Bush, and calls upon
Congress to pass the legislation,
- Press
Release, October 27, 2005
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- In a letter to Secretary Leavitt, Reps. Carolyn Maloney,
Jerrold Nadler, and Timothy Bishop, along with fifteen other Members of Congress, urge
Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), to allow those responders
into an existing medical screening program that could help immediately.
- Letter, October 6,
2005
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- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is unfurling a
"multi-year" public relations campaign, including public service announcements,
video news releases plus "major events, tours and advance [work]" to repair its
tattered image for letting politics alter its scientific work, according to agency
documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER),
- Press Release, July 26, 2005
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- A bus load of Ground Zero responders traveled from New York
to Washington, urging Congress and the President to stop a misguided attempt to take back
$125 million in 9/11 aid meant to help injured workers and joined New York Members of
Congress Carolyn Maloney (D) and Vito Fossella (R) at a news event in the capitol,
detailing why the funds are needed for current and future workers compensation claims and
for the treatment of widespread illness among thousands of Ground Zero responders,
- Press Release, July
21, 2005
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- A bipartisan group of New York lawmakers
secured an agreement from Congressman Ralph Regula (R-OH), the Chairman of the House
Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related
Agencies, to work to prevent $125 million in Ground Zero workers compensation aid from
being taken back by the federal government.
- Press Release,
June 23, 2005
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- Five 9/11 responders - representing countless
other Ground Zero workers with similar health and job loss experiences - travel to
Washington to urge the President and Congress to withdraw a plan to take back $125 million
in 9/11 aid meant to help injured 9/11 workers with injury-related expenses and speak at a
news conference organized by Congreswoman Carolyn Maloney just hours before a
Congressional committee was set to vote on legislation that would rescind the funds - $120
million for 9/11 workers compensation programs and $5 million for the worker retraining
program established to help New Yorkers who became unemployed because of 9/11,
- Press Release,
June 16, 2005
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler, reacting to
the release of the EPA's May 10, 2005 Revised Sampling Plan finds at first glance
that the EPA's long-awaited plan has been designed in a way that is fundamentally
inadequate to determine the true extent of WTC dust contamination.
- Press Release,
May 11, 2005
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- Senator Clinton calls on nominee for EPA head,
Stephen L. Johnson, to revise and strengthen the Administration's recent regulation on
mercury emissions from power plants, and to release a long-awaited report to Congress on
acid rain if he is confirmed by the Senate,
- Press Release, April
6, 2005 COMPARE THIS P
RESS RELEASE WITH HER APRIL
5, 2005 LETTER
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- The Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility (PEER)files a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, claiming it is illegally blocking the release of internal surveys
of its own scientific staff,
- Press Release, March 31, 2005
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- Congressman Major R. Owens,
pointing to a newly released report by EPA experts that strongly advised testing for
building contaminants in Brooklyn as well as patterns of adverse health effects among its
residents, demands that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conduct testing in
Brooklyn for toxic contamination attributable to the 9/11 bombing of the World Trade
Center,
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Press Release, 1/25/05
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- Although New York City saw its take of the high-threat
money restored to FY2003 levels, the state as a whole continues to suffer from a bad
funding formula and bad distribution by the Department of Homeland Security and
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney notes that "Our state still has a major problem. The
administration continues to insist on sending a disproportionate amount of security funds
to states with more cows than people,"
- Press Release,
12/03/04
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler calls on Commander-in-Chief to Stop EPA's
Dereliction of Duty and Protect Public Health following pleas to EPA by community groups
frustrated by the agency's failure to act three years after the terrorist attack,
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Press
Release, 11/29/04
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- Almost one year after Clinton
secures White House commitment for the creation of an independent panel to evaluate indoor
air quality issues stemming from 9/11, Senator calls on Administration to take immediate
action,
- Press Release, 11/26/04
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler praises the EPA-led WTC
Expert Technical Review Panel proposl to expand cleanup beyond former boundaries in lower
Manhattan, and declares his intention to continue to fight for the cleanup to be done
properly,
- Press Release,
7/28/04
- Congressman Jerrold Nadler
(D-NY) releases documents showing extraordinary levels of contamination present in the
Deutsche Bank building as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) and
calls upon the EPA to ensure safety of residents and workers in Lower Manhattan,
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Press Release,
7/19/04
- Congressman Jerold Nadler responds to the release of
the NIEHS report on the ongoing health problems of first responders and others to the
attack on September 11th by calling on the EPA to meet its responsibility for the cleanup
of those areas still contaminated,
- Press Release, 5/3/04
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- Regional Administrator for Region II, Jane Kenny,
announces award of EPA gold medal to honor to the 23 member New York City Response and
Recovery Operations team for the EPA cleanup of WTC contamination in 2002-2003,
- E-mail, 4/26/04
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- Congressmembers Carolyn Maloney and Christopher Shays
introduce legislation to significantly improve the way the
federal government has responded to the serious health care needs of 9/11 rescue and
recovery workers and residents who live around the World Trade Center site,
- Press Release,
3/29/04
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- HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today
announced the awarding of eight grants to fund an $81 million, five-year health screening
program of New York City firefighters and other workers and volunteers who provided
rescue, recovery, and restoration services at the World Trade Center disaster site,
- Press Release,
3/18/04
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler applaudsthe
lawsuit filedby New York City residents, workers, parents and students against the
EPA for failure to comply with its federally mandated responsibility to clean up buildings
contaminated in the terrorist attack of September 2001,
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Press
Release, 3/10/04
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NYC Dept. of Health announces that the
World Trade Center Health Registry Surpasses 25,000 Registrants, with six months left for other eligible participants to sign up.
The Registry is now the second largest effort of its kind in U.S. history, just behind the
Three-Mile Island Registry that began in 1979,
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Press Release,
3/2/04
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler thanks
Senator Hillary Clinton for her continuing efforts to ensure the EPA-led Technical Review
Panel provides a fair and comprehensive review of post 9/11 contamination and promises he
will continue the demand for rigorous testing and cleaning of all downtown spaces that may
be risking the health and lives of New Yorkers,
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Press Release,
3/1/04
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- Senator Hillary Clinton joins in
announcing the EPA World Trade Center Technical Review Panel to examine indoor air quality
issues raised by the IG Report publicly, although commenting that it does not include
everything she wanted,
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Press Release,
3/1/04
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- Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney reacts to
just-announced 2004 Urban Area Security grants: "Shortchanging
American cities at the top of the terrorists’ lists is no way to fight a War on
Terrorism here at home. This Administration has time and time again turned its back on the
communities most at risk.
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Press
Release, 11/13/03
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- Senator Clinton Calls on TSA (Transportation Security
Authority) to explain use of private employees as screeners at LaGuardia,
- Press Release, 11/6/03
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- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton declares that focus of
Homeland Security funding be on devising a system by which these resources go to
communities and states facing the greatest threat both efficiently and speedily,
- Press Release, 11/3/03
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- Senator Clinton announces over $1 million in Federal
Firefighter Grants for seventeen fire departments in New York in the 21st round of federal
grant approvals under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program,
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Press
Release, 11/5/03
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- Senator Clinton announces over $1.7 million in Federal
Firefighter Grants for twenty-six fire departments in New York in the 20th round of
federal grant approvals under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program,
- Press
Release, 10/30/03
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- Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) faults the
Environmental Protection Agency for its failed response to 9/11 at hearing held in
NYC by the House Government Reform Committee on the health effects of September 11th,
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Press
Release, 10/28/03
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- Congressman Shays speaks at Field Hearing of the
National Security Subcommittee (of teh House Government Reform Committee) in New York City
on the effect of the World Trade Center collapse on air qaulity and public health,
- Statement, 10/28/03
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- Congressman Jerold Nadler, City Council
Member Alan Gerson, and New York City residents and environment health advocates today
urged Federal Action based on the "Be Safe" precautionary approach ("better
safe than sorry") to protect children and adults in NYC from remaining World Trade
Center Dust,
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Press
Release, 10/20/03
- Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Major Owens
(D-NY) and Anna Eshoo (D-CA) submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request today
to collect information that the EPA has kept hidden for over two years,
- Press Release,
10/16/03
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- Congressmen Engel and Towns press for
hearing about White House and EPA misleading New Yorkers on Air Quality at Ground Zero,
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Press Release,
10/10/03
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- Senator Clinton Announces Over $800,000 in Federal
Firefighter Grants for seventeen fire departments in New York in the 21st round of federal
grant approvals under the Assistance to Firefighters Grant program,
- Press Release, 10/8/03
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- Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (D-N.Y.) requests the
General Accounting Office (GAO) conduct an investigation into the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to answer lingering questions about the accuracy of public information and
the health risks for local residents post-September 11.
- Press Release,
10/06/03
- Sierra Club launches a new ad campaign
to ask the Bush Administration to tell Americans the truth and make their health and
safety a priority, not to mislead them as they did after the WTC disaster in NYC in
September of 2001,
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Press Release,
10/2/03
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- Senator Inhofe questions the
consistency of the EPW Minority requests,
- Press Release, 10/1/03
- Senator Jeffords and congressional
colleagues call for reinstatement of superfund fees,
- Press Release, 10/1/03
- Senator Jeffords letter stating the reason why he and his democratic colleagues on the EPW Committee asked for a postponement of the consideration of Governor
Mike Leavitt to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency,
- Letter, 9/30/03
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- Congressman Nadler reacts to
White House review of EPA actions with demand that
among those seated at the table there must be" scientific experts who are trusted by
the local community of residents and workers and who have, along with the IG, been
critical of EPA's scientific approaches",
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Press Release,
9/30/03
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- Senator Clinton addresses the League of
Conservation Voters,
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Speech,
9/29/03
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- EPA Region 2 Director of Public Affairs
Bonnie Bellow instructs EPA staff on how to respond to press on the OIG Report,
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Memorandum,
9/23/03
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- Senator John Kerry demands Congress and
the Department of Justice investigate whether the White House deliberately altered EPA
findings concerning the quality of the air in New York City following the September 11th
attacks,
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Press Release,
9/18/03
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- Congresswoman Pelosi demands Congress
investigate why the EPA Failed Respond 9/11 Contamination,
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Press
Release, 9/17/03
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- Democratic Leader Pelosi, Congressman
Nadler and Ranking Members of House of Representatives demand Congressional Investigation
on EPA's Failed Response to 9/11,
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Press Release, 9/17/03
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- U.S. EPA labor unions declare White
House influence on EPA's response to 9/11 terror attack of was improper,
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Press Release, 9/16/03
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- Congressman Nadler reveals "Best Effort" Cleanup at 114 Liberty
Street Left Behind Dangerous Toxins; Residents Still Displaced 2 Years Later; and EPA
refuses to remedy the situation,
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Press Release, 9/9/03
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- Senators Lieberman and Clinton Again
Ask President for Answers On White House Suppression of Public Health Information On
Ground Zero Air Quality,
- Press Release, 9/9/03
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- Senator Inhofe issues Environment &
Public Works Committe Majority Report
- Rejecting
request for hearing, denouncing political attacks on the President,
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Press
Release, 9/4/03
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- EPW Committee Members Call for Hearing
on White House Influence Over EPA Air
Quality Reports At World Trade Center,
- Press Release, 9/4/03
- Congressman Nadler Rebuts Whitman's Comments in Newsweek on WTC Debris
Clean-Up,
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Press
Release, 9/2/03
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- Senator Clinton Rebuts former EPA
Administrator Whitman’s comments on 9/11 Report,
- Press
Release, 8/31/03
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- Congressman Nadler calls on Mayor Bloomberg
to Demand a Proper Post 9/11 NYC Cleanup,
- Press
Release, 8/26/03
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- Congressman Nadler Demands
DOJ Investigation on White House and EPA 9/11 Response,
- Press Release, 8/25/03
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- Congressman Nadler calls for immediate
federal action,
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Press
Release, 8/22/03
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- Senator Clinton calls for Congressional
Hearings on White House Role in EPA's public statements on 9/11 Air Quality,
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Press
Release, 8/22/03
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- Congressman Nadler calls for
Congressional Hearings on Disclosure of White House Interference on 9/11 Air Quality,
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Press
Release, 8/13/03
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