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Draft Report Says EPA Erred in saying Ground Zero Air Was Safe.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003

By Chris Bowman and Edie Lau, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 16--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's pollution tests in the smoke-filled days following the World Trade Center collapse did not support the agency's pronouncements that the air around Ground Zero was safe to breathe, an independent federal investigation has found.

Further, the EPA reached its conclusion using a cancer risk level 100 times greater than what it traditionally deems "acceptable" for public exposure to toxic air contaminants, according to the EPA's Office of Inspector General.

The "preliminary conclusions," contained in an internal OIG document obtained by The Bee reinforce the views of many doctors and public health...

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