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‘Teachable’ 9/11 Moment Helped Smokers Quit
Starting a smoking-cessation program for New York City firefighters in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center might have seemed ill timed. But that is what the Fire Department did, and a study reports that it was a success.
Anecdotal Findings Suggest 9/11 Dust Can Cause Illness
A doctor overseeing a federal effort to determine the health impact of exposure to ground zero dust said anecdotal evidence suggested that breathing in the smoke and ash that hung over the area after the towers’ collapse could lead to illness. But he stopped short of coming to any firm conclusion, and said that a rigorous scientific study would be required.
New Concerns About Razing of Bank Tower at Ground Zero
Demolition plans for the former Deutsche Bank building opposite ground zero have raised fresh concerns among the regulatory agencies reviewing the project, the federal Environmental Protection Agency said this week.
Debate Revives as 9/11 Dust Is Called Fatal
In the cold, clinical language of the autopsy report of a retired New York City detective that was released this week, there were words that thousands of New Yorkers have come to anticipate and to fear.
Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Officer’s Death Linked To 9/11
The death of a retired New York detective in January was directly related to his work at ground zero on Sept. 11, 2001, and afterward, a medical examiner in New Jersey has concluded. The detective, James Zadroga, 34, who lived in New Jersey, died on Jan. 5 after years of health problems, said officials with his union, the Detectives’ Endowment Association.
E.P.A. to Get A Scolding On 9/11 Dust
The City Council is poised to reject the federal government’s latest effort to clean thousands of apartments contaminated by dust from the collapse of the twin towers, calling the plan ”technically and scientifically flawed.”
Whitman Defends Finding on Air After 9/11
Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, yesterday rejected as ”completely inaccurate” a ruling by a federal judge that found she had misled people near the World Trade Center site about the risks of toxic air contamination after the Sept. 11 attack.
Public Misled on Air Quality After 9/11 Attack, Judge Says
Christie Whitman, when she led the Environmental Protection Agency, made “misleading statements of safety” about the air quality near the World Trade Center in the days after the Sept. 11 attack and may have put the public in danger, a federal judge found yesterday.
E.P.A. to Clean Apartments Despite Objections to Plan
Despite being rejected by residents, denounced by members of Congress and disowned by the panel of experts that was supposed to shape it, the plan by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to test and clean a limited number of Manhattan apartments for World Trade Center dust will go forward early next year.
E.P.A. Changes Cleanup Plans Near Ground Zero
Abandoning an ambitious cleanup plan for Lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, federal environmental officials said yesterday that they would clean, at no cost, any apartment south of Canal Street with unacceptable levels of contaminants from the collapse of the World Trade Center.