Clearing the Air
Sorting solid claims about the 9/11 toxic cloud from the obscuring haze of uncertainty
To understand how deeply New Yorkers hold the conviction that 9/11 environmental fallout is killing people, you need only to have attended the August 21 public meeting that was held in a chamber across from City Hall.
The topic was the disastrous August 18 fire in the heavily contaminated Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, which killed two firefighters. Only three weeks before the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks, here were city, state, and federal officials once again trying to downplay the possibility that the fire released environmental toxins into the neighborhood.
By Graham Rayman
September 4th, 2007 6:18 PM
SOURCE: VillageVoice.com, Wikipedia.org
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