NYC MAY OUTLAW ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING BY CITIZENS

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Has anyone heard of this?

Date: Jan. 16, 2008

NYC MAY OUTLAW ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING BY CITIZENS

The New York City Council is considering a bill that would make it

illegal for a citizen to test — without police permission — the

environment for toxic or pathogenic conditions.

The Big Apple, of course, is the tourist-pumped city where EPA's post-

9/11 assertions that the air and water were safe proved so tragically

and knowingly false. Only independent testing by journalists and

medical personnel came up with evidence to explain why everybody was

coughing.

The bill, pushed by the NYPD's counter-terror chief, would make

possession of environmental detection equipment illegal without an

NYPD-issued license. Such devices, available widely on the open

market for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, are common on

construction and engineering sites where they save many lives that

might otherwise be lost to toxic occupational hazards.

• " N.Y.P.D. Looks To Regulate Environmental Detectors, "

Downtown Express, Jan. 11-17, 2008, by Shapiro.

• Previous Story: WatchDog of May 2, 2007.

http://notes.sej.org/sej/tipsheet.nsf/13d34437d7f7c3e486256e810081065b

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