World Trade Center environmental data report, 2001-2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

Acknowledgments The author, Francesca Lyman, wishes to thank the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) and The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) for providing the funds to do this report. Based in London, England, the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), founded in 1883, is a professional and educational body, dedicated to the promotion of environmental health and to encouraging the highest possible standards in the training and the work of environmental health professionals.

In addition, she feels it is important to also acknowledge the contributions of Nelson Fabian, NEHA Executive Director, as well as NEHA’s ad-hoc ‘Lessons Learned committee,’ which comprise NEHA’s board of directors, chaired by Thomas R. Ward, R.S., Environmental Health Director, Union County Health Department, Monroe, NC. The members of this committee, i.e. the board of directors in 2003, include Thomas R. Ward, R.S., Environmental Health Director, Union County Health Department, Monroe, NC., Richard Gabriel, Sr., E.H.S. of the North Central District Health Department in Lewiston, Idaho, James Michael Phillips, of the Combined Health District of Montgomery County, Dayton, Ohio, and Patrick J. Maloney, R.S., M.P.A.H., Environmental Health Director, Brookline Health Department, Brookline, MA. NEHA, a professional society for practitioners of environmental health, today has 5,000 members, and offers a variety of programs that are all in keeping with the association's mission, which is as relevant today as it was when the organization was founded in 1937. The mission of the National Environmental Health Association is "to advance the environmental health and protection professional for the purpose of providing a healthful environment for all."

The author wishes to express her deepest sympathy and continuing concern for the families of the victims and for survivors of the terror attacks September 11,2001—including those tens of thousands of workers and residents whose health may have been impaired as a result of smoke and dust inhalation in the New York City metropolitan area.

The following persons were interviewed for this report and/or reviewed it. They are listed in the positions they held at the time they participated.

Richard Cole, Arlington County environmental health specialist; Lauri Boni, Mt. Sinai Medical Center; Richard Jackson, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Richard Borri, New York City Department of Health; Robert Martin, Legal Environmental Assistance Foundation, Tallahassee, Fla.; Claire Barnett, Healthy Schools Network, Albany, N.Y.; Angela Carter, EPA Region 11; Thomas Cahill, scientist and professor. Department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of California, Davis; Jenna Orkin, 911 Environmental Action Group; Lynn Goldman, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health; Dr. Clifford Bassett, New York city allergy and asthma specialist; Diane Downing, Nurse manager, Arlington County; Steven Markowitz, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems; Hugh Kaufman, chief investigator of the EPA Ombudsman program; Joseph (Chip) Hughes, NIEHS; Kelly McKinney, New York City Department of Health, Environmental Health Division; Jason Bailowitz, office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New York City; Vai Jefferson, Arlington County Environmental Health Department; Mark Penn, Arlington County Emergency Operations; Glenn Rutherford, Arlington County Health Department; Dodie Gill, Employee Assistance Program, Arlington County, Va..; Joel Shufro, New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH); Joe Davis, Society of Environmental Journalists; Dave Newman, NYCOSH; Carrie Loewenhertz; NYCOSH; Jonathan Bennett, NYCOSH; Paul Bartlett, Center for the Biology of Natural Systems; Eric Schmeltzer, Jerrold Nadler’s office; Lisette Morton, Jerrold Nadler’s office; Howard Bader, Certified Industrial Hygienists; Michele Robinson, NYC DOH; Luz Claudio, scientist; Sam Benson, Office of Emergency Management, NYC; Hugh Kaufman, EPA; Bruce Lippy, the International Union of Operating Engineers;

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