[CPEO-BIF] New Orleans safety debate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Residue of Hurricane Stirs Debate on Habitation

By FELICITY BARRINGER
New York Times
December 2, 2005

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 - The debate over whether the toxic discharges that 
swept over New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish after Hurricane Katrina 
have left the area unfit for human habitation reignited on Thursday, as 
state environmental officials and local environmental and citizens' 
groups accused one another of misinterpreting data.

A toxicologist for the State of Louisiana said in an interview Thursday 
that about 95 percent of the city was fit for long-term human habitation.

A few hours earlier, representatives of local environmental and 
citizens' groups, citing samples the government collected from the 
sediment in once-flooded areas and their own samples, said at a news 
conference that without an extensive cleanup of toxic sediments, at 
least 75 percent of the city was unfit for families with children.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/national/nationalspecial/02enviro.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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