reality-based educator

This is infuriating:

Cleanup of the toxic Deutsche Bank tower near Ground Zero has been halted after asbestos was found in areas the state said had already been cleaned, the Daily News has learned.

Officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered that workers performing cleanup and searching for human remains at the 130 Liberty St. site have been working without respiratory equipment for weeks, and will not be allowed back to work until they're properly outfitted and trained.

The federal EPA, joined by the city environmental agency and the state Labor Department, inspected the site last Thursday and found that supposedly cleansed areas on the roof of the 40-story building still contained undetermined amounts of asbestos-laden dust.

"We expressed very strong concerns," said the EPA's Mary Mears. "As a result, work was stopped. We're going to make sure they do it properly before they start it up again."

The Deutsche Bank is the building Mayor Bloomberg wanted to take down with an implosion, btw.

Because that's what downtown needs. More asbestos in the fucking air.

But now the people running this building takedown can't even protect their own workers.

Or maybe they don't care enough to protect their own workers.

Just like they didn't particularly give a shit about the men and women working the pit in the days after 9/11 when the fires below ground were still buring and spewing a toxic stew across the city.

Murderers.

Maybe if that was Giuliani's kid working on the roof or Bloomberg's daughter working as foremen, then the workers would be protected.

But when it's just some $8.00 an hour laborers doing the work, no one really cares.