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How much did federal officials know about air quality at Ground Zero?
Posted by Liz Borkowski on September 12, 2011
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As Jori Lewis notes in the case study about World Trade Center recovery workers’ health and safety, those who showed up at Ground Zero on the days and weeks after 9/11 got some misleading information about the risks they faced. Most notably, the EPA issued reassuring statements about the air quality – when, according to…