Panel agenda for Air Quality After 9/11 conference, March 2004

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

In spite of EPA assurances that the air in Lower Manhattan was safe to breathe, media reports of

illnesses to exposed parties abounded. In March 2004, Newsweek reported on two such cases:

"Jim Gilroy and his daughter live a few blocks from the site of the World Trade Center. Like thousands of others, they left their apartment after the September 11 attacks, staying with friends for about three weeks. But when then-Environmental Protection Agency director Christine Whitman and other officials announced that the air was again safe to breathe in their neighborhood. They moved back home. Though Gilroy cleaned up the dust that coated everything in their apartment, he soon began suffering from severe headaches and sinus problems and his daughter developed chronic rashes.

“Robert Gulack, a senior attorney with the Securities and Exchange Commission, was in his office in the 7 World Trade Center building when terrorists hijacked the two commercial airlines and flew them into the Twin Towers. Gulack got out before his building collapsed. Just over a month later, he returned to the neighborhood to work in the SEC’s new offices in the Woolworth building, a few blocks from the World Trade Center site, after being told it was safe. But two days later, he developed asthma; then he fell ill with bronchitis and pneumonia. Testing showed abnormally high levels of asbestos in his office building and on the outside walls. By the time he was granted federal compensation last month for an upper respiratory inflammation due to fumes and vapors at the building, an X-ray showed he had already developed permanent scars on his lungs.”

On April 28,2002, Jackie Alan Giuliano, PH.D. published an article, referred to earlier, on

Rense.com titled “EPA Coverup of Ground Zero WTC Toxins Alleged: September 11***

Environmental Hypocrisy.” The article contains the following story about a rescue worker at

ground zero:

“What studies done to date will not show are the localized toxic clouds of multiple substances that have been formed as millions of pounds of chemical compounds from the debris combine in unexpected ways. Many rescue and cleanup workers feel they have become ill from these invisible toxic clouds. A reader of my weekly commentaries contacted me about her friend and colleague, a rescue worker from a fire department in another state who was ordered to the World Trade Center

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