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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