After previously refusing a request to appear before Congress, “ex-EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman abruptly reversed herself Friday and agreed to testify before Congress on her agency’s response to the environmental fallout of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks…On Sept. 18, 2001, then-EPA head Whitman released a statement declaring the results from air monitoring tests in New York showed ‘their air is safe to breathe.’” It was not.
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