Advisers knock Katrina health tests

摘要

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is under fire for the way it responded to the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Members of the agency's science advisory board have complained that the EPA had no plan for how to respond to such a disaster and that the first tests it carried out were inappropriate. And scientists and environmental groups are concerned that — nearly two months after the disaster — the agency is still not providing returning residents with information on mid- to long-term health risks.