In a strongly worded and minutely detailed report
, the Sierra Club charges the Bush administration with " reckless
disregard " for public health in the days and months following the
collapse of the World Trade Center. "Many hundreds of people" are sick
today, the report states, some debilitatingly so, because of the
government's failure to alert the public to obvious health risks,
including toxic smoke, asbestos and mercury at Ground Zero. The report
concludes: "Much of the exposure that caused these illnesses, sadly,
could have been avoided if our federal government had responded to the
crisis...with proper concern for the people exposed." The report is the
most comprehensive in a litany of evidence suggesting Bush
administration officials ignored warnings , misinterpreted data and
issued a series of overly optimistic and unsupported statements about
environmental conditions which endangered and in some cases ruined the
health of heroic rescue workers and residents in and around Ground
Zero. [more ]
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