[CPEO-BIF] Did some in New Orleans return too soon?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Did some in New Orleans return too soon? 
Activists say EPA should have been more vocal, visible about health risks

By Miguel Llanos
MSNBC
November 7, 2005


New Orleans is bustling with salvage operations and plans to raise the
city from the ruins of Katrina. But if environmental activists had been
in charge of the cleanup, the recovery would have looked a lot different.

Bowing to anxious residents, local officials have opened the city and
its suburbs for rebuilding.

Activists see that pressure as natural, but they are angry that the
federal Environmental Protection Agency didn?t step in and halt the
return of people in the worst-hit areas until scientists had a better
idea of the extent of contamination in the wreckage, air and soil.

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For the entire story, see
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9729642/

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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