On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 23:14:48 GMT, "-=jd=-"
wrote:

He's one guy with an opinion that's akin to arguing which is worse: being
shot in the head once or three times. His opinion really doesn't matter, as
I don't think anyone's treating it lightly, regardless of the *severity*
of the toxicity. It seems everyone treating it as if it was the worst.

Opinion? Where do you see opinion? This is eyewitness testimony.

''Hugh Kauffman, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Environmental
Protection Agency who specializes in emergency response, told Morning
Sedition hosts Marc Maron and Mark Riley that a government cover-up is
taking place right now, as we speak, to hide information about the
dangerous toxins in the flood waters of the Gulf Coast region.
Kauffman, a 35-year EPA veteran who has served in Republican and
Democratic administrations, says that the Bush administration is
preventing the EPA from releasing information that oil and chemical
companies are mandated by law to provide. Kauffman says the Bush
administration’s cover-up is endangering residents and relief workers
throughout the Gulf Coast region, who are being exposed to dangerous
levels of toxins, some of which have been proven to cause cancer and
birth defects. Kauffman, who was the chief investigator for the 9/11
clean up, also said that the Bush administration engaged in the same
practice after 9/11—covering up the truth about the dangers in the air
and water and lying to the public in the weeks after the disaster.
Kauffman said that over 75% of the heroes who responded to 9/11 have
gotten sick and in some cases have died because of exposure to toxins
at Ground Zero, and that he fears a similar fate will befall relief
workers and residents in the Gulf Coast now.''