NYT Article on WTC Memorial Design Finalists, 2003

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Downtown protest over ERA advice Lower Manhattan woik- -ers, residents and public- health advocates yesterday accused the EPA and the White House of misleading them about air safety after die 9/U tenor attacks. Citing a report by the EPA’s inspector general that said the White House soft­ ened the warning about the airhome hazards at Ground Zero, tbe protesters said they were “outraged” by the all^edly watered-down warnings and the EPA’s ftul- ure to do a proper cleanup job in offices and homes. “For too many of these men and women, the EPA’s felse reassurance that the air quality in lower Manhat­ tan was safe led to their being ejqxised to much nmre than they otherwise would have been,” said Ste­ phen Levin, co-ffirector of the Mount Sinai-Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Med­ icines. “Many people did not wear the respiratory protection that they really AmoM tbe protesters who mtnered on the steps q|lt>(03 of Federal Hall to con^lam was Robert Gulack, a Secu­ rities and Exchange Com- ' mission employee who said he suffered respiratory problems after beii^ told to go back to woric in the Woolworth Building in Oc­ tober 2001 Bridget Harrison

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