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Press Releases

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• EPA Initiates Emergency Response Activities, Reassures Public about Environmental Hazards
  [EPA press release - September 13, 2001]

• Whitman Details Ongoing Agency Efforts to Monitor Disaster Sites, Contribute to Cleanup Efforts
  [EPA press release - September 18, 2001]

• EPA Disaster Response Update NYC Monitoring Efforts Continue to Show Safe Drinking Water, Air
  [EPA press release - September 21, 2001]

• EPA and OSHA Web Sites Provide Environmental Monitoring Data from World Trade Center and Surrounding Areas
  [EPA press release - October 3, 2001]

• Whitman Announces Water Protection Task Force
  [EPA press release - October 5, 2001]

• New York State Cleans Up Diesel Engines in Lower Manhattan
  [EPA press release - October 10, 2002]

• EPA Releases a Draft Health Evaluation of the Effects from the Destruction of the World Trade Center
  [EPA press release - December 26, 2002]

• World Trade Center Cleanup a Highlight of RCRA National Meeting in Washington This Month
  [EPA press release - January 4, 2002]

• EPA Opens New Environmental Emergency Response Center
  [EPA press release - February 6, 2003]

• Public Comment Period Extended by 30 Days on Draft Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster
  [EPA press release - February 27, 2003]

• EPA Administrator Whitman Launches National Initiative to Promote Land Reuse and Redevelopment - Expanding the Brownfields Program to All Cleanup Programs
  [EPA press release - April 9, 2003]

More Resources

• EPA's Response to September 11 website is in EPA's web archive  Search EPA Archive

• Report: Toxicological Effects of Fine Particulate Matter Derived from the Destruction of the World Trade Center (PDF) (62pp, 1.8M, About PDF)

• Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster
  EPA National Center for Environmental Assessment