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(page last updated, January 30, 2006)
 
9/11 ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
working for Transparent Public Process
  
 
 
In May of 2002 the EPA took lead responsibility for providing cleanup of residential spaces in a limited area of lower Manhattan.  This ushered in a period during which citizens attempted to affirm their rights to be involved in the decision-making about their communities.  9/11 Environmental Action took a leading role:
 
For our June 20, 2002 letter to the EPA demanding they observe public process and an administrative record, click here
 
For our letter to the EPA of July 8, 2002,click here
 
The EPA's response, purportedly to both letters, of Sept. 12, 2002,click here
   
9/11 EA revealed EPA's stacking public health panels assessing the risk from WTC contamination with representatives from industry, invalidating the integrity of the peer review process,
 
 •   for our Press Release, more on TERA, and our letter to EPA of October 21 to Region2, Aministrator Jane Kenny, click here
 
 •   for our letter of July 14, 2003 to Region 2 Administrator Jane Kenny regarding both EPA's and its contractor, Versar's lack of transparency and failure to conduct proper public outreach, peer review, etc., click here
 
For the 9/11 EA letter of September 24, 2003 requesting Senators Inhofe and Hastert to initiate a Congressional investigation on the findings of the report (EPA's Response to the World Trade Center Collapse: Challenges, Successes and Areas for Improvement, August 21, 2003) issued by the EPA's Office of Inspector General (OIG), which revealed that the White House Council on Environmental Quality had pressured the Environmental Protection Agency to downplay risks to public health and to delete precautionary advice, click here

For 9/11 EA activity following the response of the White House Council on Environmental Quality to Senators Lieberman and Clinton please see our new page,

THE COMMUNITY AND THE EPA WORLD TRADE CENTER AIR QUALITY EXPERT TECHNICAL REVIEW PANEL