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Maloney, Nadler ask NYC mayors what they knew about health hazards at Ground Zero
What did then-New York City Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg really know about the toxic threats posed by the ruins for the World Trade Center, and when did they know it? More than two decades after the catastrophic attacks, and…
Are Council contenders ready for "big freaking deal" changes to the Official Plan?
City Hall Watcher #388: Damien Moule on the "largest change to municipal land use planning in Ontario in decades", plus CITY HALL WATCHER LIVE lets you reflect on 15+ years of Council coverage
City Snapshots — For The People
Did you know that Las Cruces, New Mexico spends 870 times more on policing than libraries? Our new publication, Budgets Are Values, gives an overview of how 15 public library systems are funded, governed, and used by communities, and highlights the stark and indefensible contrast between funding for
NYC Mayor’s Race: Cuomo gets $1.5M in public funds, but CFB withholds another $622K over suspected ‘improper coordination’ with super PAC
Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo learned Monday that the city's Campaign Finance Board (CFB) would give his campaign $1.5 million in public matching funds — but chose to withhold another $622,000 over a super PAC supporting his mayoral campaign. The CFB awarded the 2025 mayoral frontrunner Cuomo public matching funds on May 12 after his…
Zohran Mamdani drops video laying out big cuts to New York City spending
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani outlined $27 million in municipal spending cuts while vowing to keep residents informed "every step of the way."
New York City cast vote record: An initial analysis of the 2025 Democratic mayoral primary - FairVote
This post explores the New York City cast vote record released July 24 – showing how voters used their rankings in the primary.
Annual Report Statistics
Recent statistics about the State of Delaware, the Division of Corporations, and businesses large and small that decide to make Delaware their corporate home.
Read the Docs 2016 Stats
Congrats, you made it through 2016! Read the Docs has been rolling along, and we’ve had another interesting year as well. For a quick summary: Our level of contributions and commits has gone down a good bit this year., Our traffic and user growth has been quite steady, which is particularly impre...
The New York City Council - File #: Res 0560-2024
Title: Resolution directing the Department of Investigation to conduct an investigation to ascertain the knowledge possessed by mayoral administrations on environmental toxins produced by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and to submit a report to the Council thereon.
By the numbers: the latest ICE and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US
The Guardian has reviewed figures from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection since Trump’s inauguration
Press Releases | Congressman Jerry Nadler
Rep. Nadler charged that the EPA has abrogated its responsibility to protect public health by proclaiming lower Manhattan “safe” without comprehensive data to support that statement. And the Congressman revealed that the EPA had its own office building at 290 Broadway extensively tested and properly cleaned, in stark contrast to EPA directives which told Manhattan residents to follow NYC Department of Health (NYCDOH) guidelines that advise cleaning with “wet rags.” The Congressman stated that these guidelines may be in violation of the federal law that EPA is responsible for overseeing. As a result of these findings, the Congressman made a number of immediate demands of the EPA and called for the continued, unfettered and independent investigation by the EPA National Ombudsman and for Congressional Hearings. EPA Region II officials have claimed in multiple public statements that they have no responsibility for indoor testing and cleaning of residences in lower Manhattan. In a November 20th New York Daily News article, Region II Counsel Walter Mugdan said, “They [the federal regulations] were never contemplated to apply to someone cleaning an apartment.” Another spokesperson for Region II, said in a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch article, “That’s not our job and we have no policies or procedures for doing that type of testing.” She also stated, “We are not a health agency.” However, today Congressman Nadler said that he had spoken with EPA officials who dispute the accuracy of those statements. The EPA National Ombudsman, Robert Martin, confirmed that the agency is, in fact, currently doing indoor testing and removal of hazardous materials in Herculaneum, Missouri, and has also done so in McFarland, California, and Kellog, Idaho. “The EPA has failed to uphold its own mission – ‘to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment – air, water and land – upon which life depends.’ It is absurd that the EPA has claimed publicly that it doesn’t have the legal authority to do necessary environmental tests and remediation in response to the World Trade Center attacks when it has clearly done residential work throughout the country,” said Congressman Nadler. “Why is New York being treated differently?” “And given that the EPA has not tested inside people’s homes, despite my repeated requests for it to do so, I find it deeply troubling that Administrator Whitman said she was ‘glad to reassure the people of New York. . .that their air is safe to breathe, and their water is safe to drink.’ She clearly did not have comprehensive data to support that claim either way,” he added. Congressman Nadler also revealed today that the Federal buildings at 290 Broadway and 26 Federal Plaza were tested inside and outside for high levels of hazardous materials and, when some were found, the areas were cleaned (HEPA vacuumed) by properly trained personnel. Some sources have also indicated that even greater cleanup measures were taken. However, even when the EPA received test results from a study commissioned by the Task Force that indicated serious levels of asbestos and other materials inside downtown apartments, the EPA continued to guide residents to the NYC Department of Health (NYCDOH) for direction. The NYCDOH directed residents who are the same distance away from Ground Zero as the Federal buildings, to clean asbestos-laden dust “with wet rags and mops” or “wet brooms.” "We must ask why is what the EPA says is good enough for New York residents not good enough for the EPA itself? Either the cleanup measures taken at the EPA office were necessary to protect its workers or the EPA wasted tax-payer dollars on an unnecessary cleanup,” stated Congressman Nadler. Moreover, the Congressman argued, that by delegating authority to the more lenient City standard, the EPA may have violated the law, as the agency is compelled to ensure that such City standards are at least as stringent as Federal law. “Today, I have leveled some serious charges at the EPA because I believe I have the moral responsibility to do so. However, I want to make perfectly clear that we still do not know the extent of the presence of hazardous materials in some areas downtown. It may or may not be dangerous in some indoor areas of lower Manhattan. I believe that given that we don’t have all of the facts, we cannot conclude anything. I do know that we must get the proper facts and act swiftly and appropriately to get the job done right,” said Rep. Nadler. CALLS FOR ACTION Rep. Nadler and the Ground Zero Elected Officials Task Force called for four actions by the EPA: 1) Expedited testing of lower Manhattan residences and workspaces for hazardous materials levels. If shown to be necessary by test results, the proper cleaning of such indoor spaces by the EPA or appropriate government agency or its designated contractors. Such a testing and cleanup effort must be coordinated by a single agency utilizing the strictest Federal guidelines. 2) The full, independent and unfettered investigation by the EPA National Ombudsman into EPA’s response to the September 11th attacks in New York. 3) The release of all documents detailing the justification of the cleanup of 290 Broadway and 26 Federal Plaza, how that cleanup was conducted, by whom, and at whose expense; 4) An immediate explanation from EPA of why it didn’t utilize or enforce strict, Federal guidelines regarding hazardous testing and cleanup downtown, in favor of more lenient City standards. In addition, Congressman Nadler called for immediate Congressional hearings into all of these matters. Rep. Nadler has served in Congress since 1992. He represents the 8th Congressional District of New York, which includes parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn, including the area surrounding 'Ground Zero.' He is the Chair of the Ground Zero Elected Officials Task Force.
SustainOSS: The Report
On June 19th, 2017, one hundred people gathered in San Francisco to create a cultural shift in how we think about the sustainability of…
We just released the Mayor's Management Report for Fiscal Year 2026, and here's what we found: pothole politics is working and young New Yorkers are finding a government that serves them. Learn more at on.nyc.gov/managementreport
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