Hundreds, if not thousands, of Ground Zero rescue workers and NYC residents are SICK and DYING because EPA Chief Christine Todd Whitman proclaimed the air “safe to breathe” THE NEXT DAY.
The Bush Admin pushed the EPA for the “all safe” declaration in order to get Wall St. up and running as quickly as possible.
The toxic air is only one part of the huge puzzle that is the government’s cover-up of 9/11.
NY appeals court: Whitman not liable in Sept. 11 air case
By LARRY NEUMEISTER – 11 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman cannot be held liable for telling residents near the World Trade Center site that the air was safe to breathe after the 2001 terrorist attacks, a federal appeals court said Tuesday.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Whitman’s comments reassuring people about the safety around the site apparently were based on conflicting information and reassurances by the White House.
The appeals court said legal remedies are not always available for every instance of arguably deficient governmental performance.
…The ruling came in response to a lawsuit by residents, students and workers in lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who said they were exposed to hazardous dust and debris from the fallen twin towers after Sept. 11.
The plaintiffs alleged that Whitman and EPA officials acting on her behalf made statements about air quality that failed to report or misrepresented health risks associated with the dust from the ruined skyscrapers.
They said Whitman, who also is a former New Jersey governor, should be forced to pay damages to properly clean homes, schools and businesses.
A lower court judge had earlier refused to dismiss Whitman as a defendant, saying her actions were “conscience-shocking.”
The next question is — if the court has decided it wasn’t her fault that she had “conflicting information and reassurances by the White House” — will the White House be the next one taken to court?