Thousands claim exposure in 9/11 aftermath

And why?

http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/wtc-index.htm
http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/

The Project continues to advocate for those caught in the downwind of the World Trade Center Disaster. Our well-publicized campaign has brought awareness of the eruption of dangers to our environment that we now face since 9-11, plans for a major cleanup, and continues to catalyze actions to rectify these situations.

http://www.wtceo.org/
You can click on the pictures for more dust cloud pictures.

http://www.911ea.org/Front_Page.htm

In a resolution scheduled to be introduced today, the Council will join community groups, labor unions and the city's Congressional delegation in condemning the way the Environmental Protection Agency has handled environmental and health issues resulting from the destruction of the World Trade Center.

I especially have a lot of respect for the New York Environmental Law and Justice Project.

The physicist and atmospheric scientist Thomas Cahill has done some great research on the toxic air pollution which rose from the smouldering ruins of the WTC for months after 9/11. He explains some of the strange super-heated chemical processes deep in the rubble, which proved especially deadly for the people working on the site rite after 9/11.

Here's a good general interest article about Cahill's "Deeper Criticisms" of the EPA's misleading approach:
http://www.neha.org/9-11%20report/index-Deeper.html

...In a survey done in May 2002 regarding public health issues following September 11, residents of lower Manhattan expressed more concern about air quality than they did about another terrorist attack...

From your link.
http://www.neha.org/9-11%20report/index-Deeper.html

You could smell that it wasn't meant to be breathed.

I live about two miles downwind from the burning pile of the WTC. Never had a lung ailment before. Now I need an inhaler. Another friend is congested all the time and lost his sense of smell. Another has had bouts of bronchitis. More people are coming down with illnesses related to the air as time moves forward. The health crisis fallout from this is huge. It will be costly to the government, but the evidence is there. Watch for this suit to be squashed for political and PR reasons.

He said he got asthma. I wonder if it's something other than asthma. No real reason, but I just wonder.

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viewpoint, especially with the present Supremes we have...
Maybe they ought to sue individual Saudis who gave Old Sammy the bucks for the pilot training...

...I'd like to see that case law.

Tuesday 26 August 2003

Outraged that the White House misled New Yorkers about air quality after the Sept. 11 terror attack, Sen. Hillary Clinton and dozens of other city and state officials demanded a presidential explanation.

A report released Friday by the Inspector General of the federal Environmental Protection Agency found that the White House instructed EPA officials to reassure New Yorkers that the air was safe to breathe after the attacks, even though deadly contaminants were present in lower Manhattan.

The report said in editing EPA press releases the White House "added reassuring statements and deleted cautionary statements."

Speaking on the steps of City Hall, Clinton said she had sent a letter to President George W. Bush Tuesday asking for a thorough and expeditious accounting of what transpired in the White House after the attacks, including the names of officials who changed EPA information.

"Maybe after the first couple of days nobody could know," Clinton said, referring to the EPA statements after Sept. 11. "But a week later? Two weeks later? Two months later? Six months later? Give me a break. They knew and they were going to tell us the truth and the White House told them not to tell us the truth.

"Now they should come to New York and face us," she said.

White House representatives have argued against the Inspector General's findings, stating that the choices made by the Bush administration were necessary for national security reasons.

In the letter to the president, Clinton also asked the Bush administration to implement a new testing program to ensure residents are no longer at risk of exposure to harmful toxins in the dust and air.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) called on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to take a more active role in pressing the federal government for a proper cleanup of lower Manhattan homes, schools and businesses.

At the news conference, Madelyn Wils, chairwoman of Community Board 1, said much of the blame should also be placed on the administration of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for not responding to concerns of residents in lower Manhattan immediately after the attack.

While much of the city was focused on recovering victims from the debris, Wils said the health of residents and workers was largely ignored.

"Who was looking after the living?" Wils asked. "No one was looking after the living."