New York, NY —

Why would the federal Department of Homeland Security, in the years after the Nine Eleven terrorist attacks, with fears of dirty bombs and radiological attacks, dismantle a federal lab that studies radiation?

That's the question a House Committee explored today in a hearing on the fate of the Environmental Measurement Lab...a Cold War era lab located just blocks from the World Trade Center site. WNYC’s Bob Hennelly talks with WNYC All Things Considered host Amy Eddings about the lab, and today’s testimony.