Amy Eddings

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New Yorkers breathe the dirtiest air in the country. That's according to a recent report by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The pollution in our air increases our cancer risk. Ray Werner, the air chief of EPA's Region 2, joins WNYC’s Amy Eddings.

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Several new studies on black men show they face more dire circumstances than unemployment rates and education statistics show. A front page article in The New York Times outlined the grim details: that a huge group of poorly education black men are being more and ...

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With "The Sopranos" season premiere last night viewers finally got a chance to see the end product of months of work filmed on location, and at SilverCup Studios in Long Island City.

New York City is experiencing a film and television production boom. Much of the ...

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So far, the people suffering from Nine Eleven related illness must rely on a patchwork quilt of federal, state and local programs for their medical screening and treatment. Earlier this year, two local congressmembers pushed to have the Bush Administration create a federal 9/11 health ...

Today, the city medical examiner's office will conduct an autopsy on Police Officer Eric Hernandez, who was critically shot by another officer 12 days ago.

The autopsy results may help police and prosecutors clarify the sequence of events that led to Officer Hernandez's shooting outside a Bronx White Castle restaurant in ...

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A top figure at Washington D.C.'s Holocaust Museum has been tapped to head up the creative effort to build the World Trade Center Memorial Museum. Alice Greenwald, the associate director at the Holocaust Museum, will create programming and design exhibits for the World Trade Center ...

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Sanitation and city economic development officials are due in the city council’s chambers today, to continue discussions of Mayor Bloomberg’s 20-year plan for the city’s garbage. Several new hurdles have emerged, and that has some city councilmembers worried that the complicated plan is coming apart. ...

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A federal judge is allowing a class action lawsuit to go forward against the EPA and its former administrator, Christine Todd Whitman, for telling people the air in Lower Manhattan was safe shortly after the World Trade Towers collapsed. WNYC's Amy Eddings has more.

On September ...

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The Indian Point nuclear power plants will get a new emergency siren system. The current sirens have been unreliable in recent tests. WNYC's Amy Eddings reports.

A new federal rule, pushed by Senator Hillary Clinton, and aimed solely at Indian Point, requires backup power for its ...

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In a rowdy meeting today, a group of experts lambasted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA had set up the panel to contribute to plans for addressing contaminants in Lower Manhattan after September 11th, but almost all the participants said the Agency had ignored ...

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The county leaders of the New York Republican party met today in Albany to try to pick candidates they could unite behind in 2006. But unity was nowhere to be found. The county chairs encouraged Jeanine Pirro to drop out of her race against Senator ...

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Members of the Coney Island Polar Bear club went for a dip today. Snow was on the ground and the Coney Island boardwalk was almost deserted, but the group said it was their idea of a perfect day at the beach. Staten Island Tattoo artist ...

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Verizon is just the latest big private company to announce an overhaul of its pension system, but there's bad news for public pension systems too. Nationwide, they're estimated to have more than $300 billion in unfunded liabilities. New Jersey's state employee pension system alone has ...

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Now that Mayor Bloomberg’s been re-elected for a second and final term, his administration can once again focus on an issue that was placed on the back burner during the campaign: garbage.

REPORTER: The city council is considering Bloomberg’s 20-year plan to retool four city-owned waterfront ...

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Times are rocky for Cablevision. Last week, the Dolan family -- CEO Charles Dolan and his son, James -- decided not to take the company private. The stock market responded, and share prices dropped 13% last Tuesday. And Aaron Elstein of Crain's New York business ...

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Fifty years ago this week, Norman Mailer, Dan Wolf, and Ed Fancher rolled out the first issue of the Village Voice. That first copy, in 1955, was 12 pages long and sold for 5 cents a copy. The Village Voice has come a long way, ...

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After only one day of deliberations, a jury found the Port Authority was negligent in the bombing of the World Trade Center's public parking garage in 1993.

WNYC’s All Things Considered host, Amy Eddings, talks with Mark Fass, a reporter for the New York Law Journal, ...

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New Yorkers will get a "backstage pass" to their own city over the next two days through an organization that aims to make the city's architecture and design more accessible. More than 150 sites - from skyscrapers to crypts will be open for tours, walks ...

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Once again, as it did with the Jayson Blair scandal and with its reporting on WMDs, the New York Times turned its journalistic gaze upon itself in yesterday’s Sunday edition.

A lengthy, front-page article reviewed reporter Judith Miller’s involvement in an investigation in Washington on whether ...

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It's taken 12 years but today some of the victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing achieved part of their goal: they've taken the Port Authority to trial.

They say the owners of the buildings should have prevented the attack which killed six people and ...