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NYC releases 9/11 records showing officials misled New Yorkers about air quality around Ground Zero

The files include air quality reports and internal memos showing officials anticipated thousands of lawsuits and knew the area was unsafe to breathe.

  • New York City released over 170,000 pages of records revealing that officials knew the air around Ground Zero was toxic but publicly assured residents it was safe to breathe.
  • The records include internal memos, environmental data, and documents showing concerns about asbestos, benzene, and other carcinogens detected after the 9/11 attacks.
  • Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the release, emphasizing that many of the hundreds of thousands exposed remain underserved and that withholding these documents was an injustice to New Yorkers.
  • The documents reveal city leaders prepared for potential lawsuits over toxic air exposure and considered limiting liability.
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The authorities in New York have minimized the health risks to the population following the 2001 attacks, although they were aware of the high level of pollution in Manhattan, showing documents made public recently. The asbestos was found "almost everywhere in the tested areas near Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center towers collapsed in 2001, said the mayor of the city ...

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New York, 8 Sep. (askanews) - Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, New York has released more than 170 thousand pages of air quality and contamination documents in Ground Zero, which have remained inaccessible to the public for more than twenty years. The papers show that months after the collapse of the Twin Towers were still detected asbestos and other contaminants in the Lower Manhattan area. Mayor Zohran Mamdani arranged for the…

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