Ex-EPA Administrator Grilled Over Her Role in 9/11 Illnesses

Environment News Service, June, 2007 by staff

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> When the hijacked planes hit New York's World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, Christine Todd Whitman was serving as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Monday, she was examined by a Congressional panel about whether the actions of her agency caused the exposure of thousands of people to hazardous dust from the collapse of the twin towers. A former New Jersey governor, Christine Todd Whitman headed the U.S. EPA from 2001 to 2003. (Photo courtesyWhitman Strategy Group) In the face of boos from the crowd in the packed hearing room, Whitman told members of a House Judiciary subcommittee that she and the U.S. EPA staff cared very much about those caught at Ground Zero. In fact, Whitman said, her own son...

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