Nice try, George.
In your well-rehearsed photo op in the French Quarter last evening, all smiles, you told me about how New Orleans was going to be right back. [Read official White House transcripts.]
Now, I know that you're not the type to ever let environmental constraints get in the way of your agenda and/or corporate profits, but what about this:
From The Independent:
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Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.
In an exclusive interview, Hugh Kaufman, an expert on toxic waste and responses to environmental disasters at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said the way the polluted water was being pumped out was increasing the danger to health.
The pollution was far worse than had been admitted, he said, because his agency was failing to take enough samples and was refusing to make public the results of those it had analysed. "Inept political hacks" running the clean-up will imperil the health of low-income migrant workers by getting them to do the work.
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