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Date: June 25, 2007 11:18:44 AM PDT
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Subject: Rudy Giuliani, "Hero" of 9-11
Christie blasts Rudy on WTC air
BY ADAM NICHOLS
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, June 23rd 2007, 10:25 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/
2007/06/23/2007-06-23_christie_blasts_rudy_on_wtc_air-1.html
In an upcoming interview with WNBC-TV, former head of the EPA
Christie Whitman says former Mayor Rudy Giuliani blocked her
efforts to force WTC workers to wear respirators.
Former Environmental Protection Agency boss Christie Whitman says
she urged Ground Zero workers to wear respirators, but then-Mayor
Rudy Giuliani blocked her efforts.
She also said [he] didn't want EPA workers wearing haz-mat suits
because they "didn't want this image of a city falling apart."
In an interview scheduled to run the day before Whitman testifies
in front of Congress on Monday, she told WNBC-TV she warned the
city of the risks almost every day.
And she said she believes illnesses killing first responders can be
blamed on the city's lack of action.
"I'm not a scientist ... but I do [believe that]," she told WNBC's
Brian Thompson.
"I mean, we wouldn't have been saying that the workers should wear
respirators if ... we didn't think there might be health
consequences."
She said the city had the responsibility to make sure workers wore
respirators. But many took them off, complaining of heat. She said
workers without respirators were barred from cleanup efforts at the
Pentagon.
"We were certainly frustrated at not being able to get people to
wear respirators because we thought that was critically important
to workers on The Pile," Whitman said.
"Every day, there would be telephone calls, telephone meetings and
meetings in person ... with the city when we repeated the message
of the necessity of wearing respirators."
But her concern at the time only involved breathing air on The Pile.
Only seven days after the 9/11 attacks, as fires still raged at the
site, she said, "I am glad to reassure the people of New York and
Washington, D.C., that the air is safe to breathe."
Whitman also criticized Giuliani's handling of a suspected anthrax
attack at NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters weeks after 9/11.
"There was concern by the city that EPA workers not be seen in the
haz-mat suits," she said. "They didn't want this image of a city
falling apart. I said, 'Well, that's not acceptable.'"
Giuliani's former Deputy Mayor Joe Lhota rejected Whitman's claims.
"As the incident commander, F.D.N.Y.’s response was exemplary. They
coordinated, conducted and affected a multi-agency response in a
timely, safe and efficient fashion," Lhota said.
Despite initially refusing, Whitman agreed to testify about how her
agency handled airquality issues at Ground Zero.
It will be the first time a top federal official will publicly
respond to questions about the thousands of Ground Zero workers and
lower Manhattan residents who believe they were sickened by toxins
in the dust.
She will face Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Manhattan), who has already
slammed her as a liar for calling the air quality safe.
"I don't think it's going to be any fun at all," she told Thompson.
"[But] I'm tired of having to be on the defensive about something I
think we did very well."
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