Archive of Press Releases
911 Health Watch Calls On HHS Secretary Kennedy to Remove WTC Health Program Hiring Freeze, Allow Research to Continue and Finally Announce Pending Decisions to Include Cardiac, Autoimmune and Cognitive Issues to the List of Covered 9/11 Conditions
The World Trade Center Health Program is at risk because of the continued chaos that Secretary Kennedy and his directives are causing.
Through its Public Records Access Officer, Outgoing Adams Administration Orders Document Response by February 27, Leaving Issue to Mayor-Elect Mamdani
Mayor-elect Mamdani can be the Mayor that finally resolves this issue on behalf of tens of thousands of first responders, workers, and residents in and around Ground Zero after 25 years of denial by four Mayoral Administrations.
Adams Administration Delays Responding to FOIL Request for 9/11 documents for 10th Time—This Time Postponing Response to March 19, 2026
The Adams Administration has yet again delayed responding to 911 Health Watch’s September 8, 2023 FOIL request, this time pushing their response date out to March 19, 2026—by which time Mayor Adams will have left office.
911 Health Watch calls on Secretary Kennedy to Lift Communications Ban on the World Trade Center Health Program and Allow the Program to Respond to Conditions that Appear to Have Increased Incidence Impacting 9/11 Responders
This pause has shut down all normal communications between the 9/11 community and the World Trade Center Health Program, and is impacting the program’s normal functioning. Given that it is now more than seven months since the new administration took over, it is long past time to remove the ban on the program interacting with the 9/11 community.
911 Health Watch Inc. Applauds Approval by the New York City Council of Resolution that Directs the Department of Investigation to Investigate What the City Knew Regarding the Dangers of the Toxic Chemicals at Ground Zero and When Did They Know It?
This is the first time that the NYC Council has invoked its authority granted by the City Charter (Section 803) to order DOI to conduct an investigation on topics the Council specifies.
911 Health Watch Inc. Applauds Councilmember Brewer Effort to have DOI Investigate What the Administration of then New York City Mayor Giuliani Knew About the Toxins at Ground Zero and When Did They Know It?
Today, New York City Council Member Gale Brewer introduced in the City Council a binding resolution, Reso. 560, which if passed would require the City Department of Investigation to obtain and review all documents that city government has about the environmental toxins after the attacks, and how that knowledge reverberated in the years afterwards. DOI would […]
911 Health Watch Inc. Goes to Court Seeking the Records as to What the Administration of then New York City Mayor Giuliani Knew About the Toxins at Ground Zero and When Did They Know It?
911 Health Watch Inc. announced it has filed an “Article 78” lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court to challenge the response by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to our Freedom of Information Request filed on September 8, 2023.
Statement from 911 Health Watch on the Impending Government Shutdown
With the Federal government’s impending shutdown, 911 Health Watch wanted to make sure the community of injured and ill 9/11 responders and survivors know that both programs created by the James Zadroga Act — the World Trade Center Health Program and the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund — will remain open and operational during any […]
911 Health Watch Inc. and Families of 9/11 Responders and Survivors File Freedom of Information Request Seeking the Records as to What the Administration of then New York City Mayor Giuliani Knew About the Toxins at Ground Zero
911 Health Watch Inc. announced today its filing of a Freedom of Information Law (“FOIL”) request with the City of New York on behalf of a group of 911 responders and survivors’ families. The FOIL request seeks records and documents as to the knowledge of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s administration concerning the likely health impact of […]
Former VCF Special Master Rupa Bhattacharyya, FDNY Battalion Chief and UFOA Representative Sean Michael, and Executive Director, Laborers’ Health & Safety Fund of North America, Lisa M. Sabitoni Join Board of Directors of 911 Health Watch
With the additions of Ms. Bhattacharyya, Mr. Michael, and Ms. Sabitoni, the organization will continue its mission to make sure that the goal of providing quality medical care and compensation for injured and ill 9/11 responders and survivors is achieved.