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Zeldin Vows to Prevent Another 9/11 Air Poisoning Disaster After LA Fires

Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell

The Environmental Protection Agency misled the public about the dangerous air in New York City following the 9/11 terror attacks in 2001, Commissioner Lee Zeldin said. He vowed to prevent a repeat of this disaster in the aftermath of the 2025 California wildfires.

“I actually think that’s the worst moment of EPA history was misleading the public on air quality,” he told The Daily Signal in an exclusive interview. “We are following a principle very strictly, with a whole lot of discipline, to never do that.”

Zeldin said the agency is taking a different approach to environmental issues after the fires of January 2025.

“We have air monitors that are out,” he said. “We monitor air, land, and water on the land front. We just ramped up an extra redundant soil sampling just to confirm that excavating to six inches was the right level to go down to, and we found almost 100% of the homes that level of remediation got their properties below that federal lead limit, so that was good.”

Zeldin promised “public transparency” about the safety of the air.

“I don’t want our agency to keep that information to ourselves,” he said. “We want to share it. The same thing with water quality, whether it’s the Safe Drinking Water Act to make sure residents have access to clean water, which was a really big deal at the beginning of........

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