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How near to the nearest gas station do you live? Do you have children?
Can't breathe man Not content with killing Iraqis and poisoning their environment with depleted uranium shells, the Bush administration also failed to warn the American public of long-standing evidence that the twin towers collapse would release toxins and make the air unsafe to breathe. The EPA failed on at least a dozen occasions to change its safety assurances even after it became clear people were getting sick, and failed to enforce safety requirements among workers on the Ground Zero clean-up effort. Last year the EPA, in an internal report by its Inspector General Nikki Tinsley, said the White House pressured the agency to make premature statements that the air was safe to breathe. The EPA issued an air quality statement on Sept. 18, 2001, even though it 'did not have sufficient data and analysis to make the statement,' the EPA report said, adding that the White House 'convinced the EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones.' Among the information withheld was the potential health hazards of breathing asbestos, lead, concrete and pulverized glass. The Sierra Club report ['Air Pollution and Deception at Ground Zero: How the Bush Administration’s Reckless Disregard of 9/11 Toxic Hazards Poses Long-Term Threats for New York City and the Nation,'] said hundreds of people were seriously ill as a result of breathing contaminated air after the buildings fell. It said much of the dust was as caustic as ammonia and had an effect akin to drinking drain cleaner. While news stories emerged as early as October 2001 about firefighters suffering from something called 'World Trade Center Cough,' most people outside New York are unaware of the wide range of workers and community people who have been afflicted by Ground Zero pollution. French scientists who carried out a study of more than 500 infants found that a child whose home was near a fuel station or vehicle-repair garage was four times as likely to develop leukemia as a child whose home was further away. And the longer a child had lived nearby, the higher the risk of leukemia seemed to be, the research, published in the Occupational and Environmental Medicine journal, showed. I expect house prices near petrol stations will drop if this news ever gets out to the 'media' and parents start moving. How near to the nearest gas station do you live? Do you have children? |
http://www.sierraclub.org/petition/groundzero/
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