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Chronic Coughs, Upper Respiratory Infections, Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Asthma Plague residents |
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Written by Democracy Now
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Sunday, 18 February 2007 |
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Chronic Coughs, Upper Respiratory Infections, Bronchitis, Pneumonia and Asthma Plague residents and Students at Ground Zero
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Thursday, March 14th, 2002
After breathing in thick dust and fumes from burning jet fuel, search and rescue workers and other emergency personnel who toiled through the World Trade Center rubble after September 11 are experiencing a high level of respiratory illness.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton told a Senate committee hearing this week that twenty-five percent of New York City firefighters
"have some kind of respiratory, bronchitis, or asthmatic reaction."
But it's not only the rescue workers. Chronic coughs, upper respiratory infections, bronchitis, pneumonia and asthmaplague residents and students at Ground Zero. And they are leading a campaign to change conditions where they work, live and go to school.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health insists that asbestos levels around Ground Zero are not toxic. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a statement two days after the attacks that insisted there were nosubstantial levels of asbestos, lead, cadmium or other toxics in the air near the World Trade Center site. But most people do not believe them.
On Monday, the EPA ombudsman held a second investigative hearing on the World Trade Center site's hazardous waste contamination, hosted by Congressman Jerrold Nadler. The EPA Ombudsman's investigation has turned up evidence of what they call a "chemical attack."
They say the EPA and city officials continue to lie about the safety of the air nearGround Zero. Today we are going to have a debate about the toxicity at Ground Zero.
Guests:
- Juan Gonzalez, co-host, Democracy Now! and columnist for the New York Daily News who has beencovering the issue of the World Trade Center clean-up.
- Hugh Kaufman, Environmental Protection Agency Ombudsman chief investigator.
- George Thurston, associate professor, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University School ofMedicine. He has been conducting studies on the site with the Community Outreach and Education Program ResourceCenter of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
- Milton Diaz, foreign language and English teacher at Stuyvesant high school, near the World Trace Centersite. He is the first teach to have spoken out about the conditions around his school.
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