World Trade Center environmental data report, 2001-2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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(27) ) “Only recently have U.S. military leaders begun to regard a clean, healthy environment as a critical national interest worth fighting to protect,” noted Peter Lee Miller of Vermont Law School discussing the school’s symposium on the environmental impacts of war. “A Pentagon office is now tasked exclusively to protect the environment from military activities that would unnecessarily degrade it.”

Part 2. The day after: How officials responded

day after the tragedy. New Yorkers were in a state of shock and mourning. An eerie silence had fallen over the city, which was still obscured by smoke and blanketed in dust. Part of the World Trade Center was still in a raging fire— and another building, #7, had just collapsed. FEMA declared the city a federal disaster area and had sent a dozen urban search and rescue teams, four to Northern Virginia to the Pentagon, and eight to Ground Zero. Manhattan. NY—Sept 12,2001 Photo: Space Imaging

As many as 10,000 were believed dead, since it was estimated that some 30,000 to 50,000 people might have been in or near the Trade Center’s towers when they were hit. (1) At the Pentagon, meanwhile, hundreds were believed dead, but here, too, it would take months to complete a foil, forensic investigation.

Down on the vast, charred remains of the World Trade Center, rescue workers like Vince Forras and ironworkers silently hammered away at “the pile.” The last thing anyone was thinking about was their own health, he says, although many were coughing and experiencing a mysterious ringing in their ears, which, he confesses, was strange in view of the absence of noise and the very deathly silence of the place.

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