in the 20 years since 9/11, more people have died from toxic air than on the actual day

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they've been fighting 20 years to have the records released... now they might get them

According to Maloney's office, Adams has committed to sitting down with the two House members who have championed the 9/11 World Trade Center Health Program as well as the 9/11 Victims Compensation Fund. More than 20 years later, more people have died from their exposure to the ambient toxics in the air than died on the day of the attack itself.

In 2003, the EPA Inspector General was harshly critical of how the EPA, under the leadership of former New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman, downplayed and actually misrepresented the hazards in and around the World Trade Center site.
At the time, the Giuliani administration did not contradict the EPA's pronouncements that the "air was safe to breathe." For a number of years, into Mayor Bloomberg's tenure, the city steadfastly dismissed the occupational health concerns expressed by the unions representing workers who were on the front lines of the response and clean-up that was competed in May of 2002.

"Release of these documents is long overdue. We need to know what the Giuliani Administration knew, and when they knew it, about the toxic air that permeated lower Manhattan for months after 9/11," said Council Member Gale A. Brewer (D-Upper West Side). "I'm grateful that Mayor Adams, a 9/11 responder himself, has agreed to work with Reps. Maloney and Nadler to release these records. Over two decades later, we shouldn't have to be arguing about this."

Three days after the 9/11 attack, Christine Todd Whitman, then-head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters that "the good news continues to be that air samples we have taken have all been at levels that cause us no concern" — an assessment not contradicted by City Hall at the time, which had prioritized a quick clean-up of what had been some of the city's most valuable real estate because of its proximity to Wall Street.

Two years later, an independent investigation by the EPA Inspector General found that the agency "did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement" when it did.

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