Senate questions 9/11 air quality response. (Capitol Beat).

Claims, May, 2002

Five months after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Senate subcommittee on clean air, wetlands, and climate change held a hearing to discuss air quality issues and how they were handled following the towers' collapse and during the subsequent clean up.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), expressed concerns that test results were not made public, and called for testing of those living and working in the vicinity over the next 20 to 30 years.

The destruction of the World Trade Center created a significant environmental health emergency, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. The group recently published a report examining the environmental impacts of the attacks and the response of government officials to the ensuing...

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