On September 18th 2001 Christine Todd Whitman from the EPA stated “Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breathe and their water is safe to drink.” So wall street reopens and almost 40,000 rescue workers start working on clearing the site for the next several months with no respirators (the air was supposed to be safe). When the buildings exploded a monsterous cloud of dust coverd Lower Manhattan. This dust was “wildly toxic”, according to air pollution expert and University of California Davis Professor Emeritus Thomas Cahill. The thousands of tons of toxic debris resulting from the collapse of the Twin Towers consisted of more than 2,500 contaminants. Many of the dispersed substances (asbestos, crystalline silica, lead, cadmium, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) are carcinogenic; other substances can trigger kidney, heart, liver and nervous system deterioration. This was well known by the EPA at the time of collapse. Please support the thousands of rescue workers who’s lives are at risk. Visit The Feal Good Foundation and make a contribution. -Tasha
Source: nydailynews
BY Stephanie Gaskell
A firefighter and two cops who worked at Ground Zero in the days and weeks after Sept. 11 have died of cancer in the past five days, the Daily News has learned.
Family members and advocates are blaming their deaths on toxins released into the air after the twin towers collapsed – and they’re urging Congress to act on a bill that would help pay for their medical care.
“Everybody is denying that this stuff is connected to 9/11, but it is,” said Stephen Grossman, whose son Robert died of cancer on Friday at the age of 44.
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