[gridlock]

But the agency failed to explain that 80 percent of the air samples were taken after the apartments had already been cleaned.

When you are doing asbestos clean-ups, you take a few samples during the work, but you take a lot of samples when the work is complete to verify that it is safe to reoccupy the space.

The workers are protected during the work by their Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), so the levels during the work are not that important. The samples taken during this time are really to make sure they are using the right PPE.

I am not saying the government did everything right, here. But the fact that 80% of the samples were taken after the clean-ups were complete is appropriate and exactly as it should have been done.

[Dahoser]

Whatever you think this is, keep in mind that it’s first and foremost something that Her Heinous wants out there so she can prattle on about so-called First Responders and how she was instrumental in bringing cleanup money to NYC that the Bush administration would not release, and so on and so forth.

[Gay State Conservative]

Misled? Might it not be possible that nobody really knew what the story was given the enormity and novelty of the situation?

[Caipirabob]

Not directed at the OP, of course. : )

The beaurocracy lies. So get rid of the beaurocracy. Oh? Still want to elect Democrats and Rinos? Go suck a lemon...

[ElectricStrawberry]

What happened to the air quality monitoring departments of both NYC and New York State? The environmental monitoring dept.?

Or is this all for the sake of lawsuits and the biggest pockets are with the fedgov...

[neverdem]

NEVER HAD SHOT: RAPED B'KLYN COP HAD LEFT GUN AT STATION

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[SunkenCiv]

But the agency failed to explain that 80 percent of the air samples were taken after the apartments had already been cleaned

...but it was close enough for gov't work.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

80 percent after? Sounds good to me. Take just enough samples up front to know that you need to decontaminate a place. Then test like h*ll afterwards to verify it is safe for long-term use.

If the percentages were turned around, she'd be bitching about insufficient post-cleanup sampling to verify it.