Secret 9/11 Documents Released: 170,000 Files Expose Early Concerns Over Toxic Ground Zero Air Quality
image, captured by a NASA astronaut shortly after the second tower fell on Sept. 11, 2001, shows a giant plume of smoke blowing across New York City.
(Image credit: NASA/Frank Culbertson)
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
New York New York, In a landmark decision, New York City officials have made public more than 170,000 pages of previously unreleased records detailing the environmental and public health aftermath of September 11, 2001. The massive document trove sheds new light on what officials knew regarding toxic air quality near Ground Zero and when they knew it.
