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To: Alighieri who wrote (174910)	9/4/2003 2:33:10 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1579807

What's worse, much worse, is how the White House, through its Council on Environmental Quality, reached in to rewrite EPA press releases in order to, according to the inspector general, "add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones." Like the line the White House took out saying, "Even at low levels, EPA considers asbestos hazardous in this situation." When it came to asbestos levels, the White House preferred to say asbestos levels were "not a cause for public concern." Why? "National security and a desire to reopen Wall Street" says the inspector general. Holy cow...this is amazing. So much for bringing honesty back to the WH. Its rather astounding. EPA laws require that whenever you remove asbestos you must set up a 'clean room' and dispose of the asbestos in a particular way. Obviously, that did not happen with the WTC. However, to ignore the huge quantity of asbestos that became friable [asbestos in its most dangerous state to humans] when the towers collapsed is unconscionable. I just don't get where these people are coming from. Are people simply disposable objects secondary to everything else? Now what's likely to happen is that there will be a flurry of lawsuits and we, the taxpayers, will pay through the nose for this latest faux pas. BTW the EPA laws governing the disposal of asbestos have been in place for at least ten years or more. ted