Hillary To Block New EPA Head

"I will personally block the nomination of the president's new choice for the Environmental Protection Agency" the New York Democrat said, referring to Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt, who Bush tapped last month to take the helm at the agency.

Clinton has been pressing the White House for details on how it may have downplayed the possible adverse environmental and health impact of the attack on the World Trade Center.

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A report released by the EPA's inspector general on Aug. 22 said the White House Council on Environmental Quality persuaded EPA to "add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones" from news releases the agency sent out after the attack.

"That was wrong. That was inexcusable," Clinton told a gathering marking the 100th anniversary of the Teamsters union. "I want to know exactly what happened."