Friday, February 03, 2006

Judge Blasts EPA Ground Zero Appraisal

It's good to see someone being held accountable:

"No reasonable person would have thought that telling thousands of people that it was safe to return to lower Manhattan, while knowing that such return could pose long-term health risks and other dire consequences, was conduct sanctioned by our laws," U.S. District Judge Deborah A. Batts wrote, calling [Christine] Whitman's actions "conscience-shocking."

Well, that was assuming that the word reasonable applied to person did not include anyone in the White House or this administration.

Then, there's this little tidbit:

The EPA's internal watchdog found the agency, at the urging of White House officials, gave misleading assurances there was no health risk from the dust in the air after the towers' collapse.


At the urging of White House officials they gave misleading assurances. Now, where have we heard that before?

1 comment:

Bob said...

I hope Christie Whitman gets an ass-whupping.