Secrecy on 9/11 toxins spurs anger
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New Yorkers were widely misled about the quality of the air they breathed following the attacks of September 11, 2001. This is revealed in over 170,000 pages of government documents made public after 25 years by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. The files show that city officials were aware of dangerous levels of asbestos and toxic chemicals around Ground Zero early on, while the public was told that the air was “safe and acceptable.”
In the months after the World Trade Center towers collapsed, New Yorkers were regularly assured that it was safe to breathe the air. Ten months later, health authorities were still finding traces of asbestos at distances of up to nearly a kilometer from Ground Zero.
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Residents of New York were misled about air quality following the attacks of September 11, 2001. According to The New York Times, this is shown by documents totaling 170,000 pages released by the city government under Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
New Yorkers were misled on post-9/11 air quality, documents suggest: Report
New York City officials had evidence of possibly dangerous air conditions in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks even as the public was repeatedly reassured that returning to the area posed little long-term health risk, newly discovered documents suggest. The documents, recently unearthed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration and reviewed by the […]
New York citizens were deceived about air quality after the September 11 attacks. The New York Times reported this by quoting some documents. The authorities had assured after the attack that the air was breathable in the Twin Towers area. (ANSA)
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