Ex EPA Chief Not Liable for Clean Air Assurances after 9/11

The Second Circuit US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former EPA head Christine Whitman was not liable for saying the air near the collapsed World Trade Center was safe to breathe.  She was sued by residents and workers from lower Manhattan.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/wireStory?id=4701629
http://www.abajournal.com/news/ex_epa_chief_not_liable_for_clean_air_assurances_after_9_11/