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 Stories About: air pollution AND health AND New York AND toxics
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EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk
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14 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| EPA Says Air in NYC Poses Only Small Risk The smoke and grit in the air in New York City that came from the collapse of the World Trade Center towers pose only a small health risk, U.S. EPA officials and some doctors said yesterday. They equated the danger to a smoggy day in the city, when people with already-weakened immune systems should be especially cautious. Other independent health experts were gloom ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk
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13 Sep 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Dust, Asbestos From Trade Center Put Some at Risk The enormous cloud of smoke and grit that spread from the collapsing World Trade Center towers on Tuesday could lead to attacks of asthma, emphysema, and other lung diseases, even a day or two after people were exposed, doctors said yesterday. Aside from the smoke, U.S. EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman said the biggest environmental concern right now was asbe ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, health, New York, toxics (all these topics) |
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