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 NEW YORK (AP) - Christie Whitman, the former Environmental Protection Agency administrator, agreed to testify before Congress about the government's handling of air quality and health issues following the Sept. 11 attacks.
Whitman's attorney told Rep. Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday that she could not testify at a subcommittee hearing because of a pending federal lawsuit against the EPA over its statements that air was safe to breathe in downtown Manhattan in the days after the attacks.
But "if you insist that I appear before the subcommittee while that litigation is still pending, I am prepared to honor your request," Whitman told Nadler in a letter dated Thursday.
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