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(this page last updated June 2, 2007)
World Trade Center Related Press
The latest addition to our coverage is a new section on the battle to meet the health needs of the many people in the United States whose health has been compromised by their contact with asbestos. Since so much asbestos was used in the building of the WTC complex, the yearly battle to limit the liability of asbestos companies for the harm they have caused not only workers, but anyone who comes in contact with the fibers as they are released through poor management of workplaces (from mines to manufacturing plants, to your local brake shop), accident, or circumstance beyond belief (see in particular the stories that come from such places as Libby, Montana -- whose mines provided so much of the asbestos used to fireproof the Twin Towers.) With no extra time on our hands, we're just plunging in, and hoping to revise the pages sensibly later on.
See our page for published letters by NYC residents.
See the page added later to our archives: September 2001 Articles
From time to time we try to include some of the current stories about environmental issues that have come up after Hurricane Katrina struck the southern coast of the United States. Some stories offfer such a stark parallel to earlier coverage that they have been included in the pages for WTC Related Press; others are on separate pages. To date there are the beginnings of two such pages:
Katrina -- Earliest News Stories
WTC RELATED PRESS:
2006
2005
A series about a decades-long coverup of asbestos contamination in and around a WR Grace factory near Trenton, NJ, began February 27, Trenton Times. For easy access to the entire series, visit the NYCOSH website. Only a couple of these articles are included on these pages.
2004
2003