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- Out of the ashes: another failure? That government failed the rescue, recover and cleanup workers of Sept. 11 is doubtless. Whether all levels of government can learn from their mistakes before the next catastrophe is the real "if."
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Workers cannot be expected to bear the brunt of a local politician's hesitancy to call a hazard for what it is. Nor should they endure the misery of a workers' compensation system that is designed to frustrate the resolution of claims. Future disease exposures will likely...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- The disease within: disasters like Sept. 11 create hundreds of disease claims, but workers' comp systems are structured to reject these claims. Rescue, recovery and cleanup workers stand little chance of seeing a dime in compensation
- Summary * When a workers' comp system fails, workers can be severely disadvantaged as they race to find money elsewhere to pay for medical care and disability. * Virtually all the major claims of rescue and recovery workers have been or will be disease related, but state law...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- DNC: Drop in Polls Show Americans Not Buying Rudy Giuliani's 9/11 Rhetoric
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Dag Vega or Damien LaVera of the Democratic National Committee, +1-202-863-8163 WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Democratic National Committee: While he travels to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia today, new polls show that Rudy Giuliani's attempts to make 9/11...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- DNC: Drop in Polls Show Americans Not Buying Rudy Giuliani's 9/11 Rhetoric
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Dag Vega or Amaya Smith, +1-202-863-8163, both of the Democratic National Committee WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release was issued today by the Democratic National Committee: While he travels to Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia today, new polls show that Rudy Giuliani's attempts to make...
- Research articles 2007-09-12
- 13 days that shook their world: a team of rescue and recovery workers help with the aftermath of Sept, 11, but pay a steep price in terms of their health and out-of-pocket expenses
- Summary * Harold Schapelhouman and his 67 team members of California Task Force 3 provided pivotal support at ground zero immediately following Sept. 11. * But their work exposed the firefighters to particulate-dense smoke at the World Trade Center site. * For Schapelhouman and his crew, recovery--physically,...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Ground Zero Workers Report 12 Times Normal Asthma Rate
- NEW YORK, New York ENS — --> Twelve times as many rescue and recovery workers developed asthma after responding to the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001 than would be normally expected for the adult population, finds a new study released Monday by the New York...
- Research articles 2007-08-28
- No Worker's Compensation for Media Hurt Covering 9/11
- NEW YORK, New York ENS — --> The New York Press Photographers Association is asking members of the media who covered the September 11 attacks on New York's World Trade Center to contact the association. These journalists were exposed to the same toxic...
- Research articles 2007-08-08
- Whitman is grilled over WTC dust
- WASHINGTON -- Ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman was bombarded by boos and a host of accusations Monday at a hearing into her assurances that it had been safe to breathe the air around the fallen World Trade Center. The confrontation between the former head of the Environmental Protection Agency...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- Tempers rise at 9/11 air quality hearing
- WASHINGTON -- Ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman was bombarded by boos and a host of accusations Monday at a hearing into her assurances that it had been safe to breathe the air around the fallen World Trade Center. The confrontation between the former head of the Environmental Protection...
- Research articles 2007-06-26
- 9/11 responders urged to register for health funds
- For three days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Matt Quigley, driven by patriotism and an intense desire to help, stood in a bucket line on the hot remains of the World Trade Center, frantically removing debris, hoping to find someone alive.The Gloucester County construction laborer had no respirator -...
- Research articles 2007-04-07
- Families tell stories of loved ones lost to terror
- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg joined the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation to announce the first major collaborative arrangement for the Memorial Museum. It will allow the Memorial Museum to house the reminiscences of family members and others most directly affected by the September 11th attacks who have recorded their...
- Research articles 2006-09-13
- World Trade Center Responders Suffering Health Ailments
- NEW YORK, New York ENS — --> More than 60 percent of World Trade Center responders still suffer respiratory problems from exposure to environmental contaminants released when the towers were hit by hijacked airplanes five years ago, according to the largest study to date on the health effects of 9/11....
- Research articles 2006-09-06
- A cloudy future: a recent New York law extending the deadline for Sept. 11-related worker's comp claim means insurers of first responders may experience liability for years to come.(Health/Employee Benefits: Workers' Compensation, Health)
- New York City Police Department detective James Zadroga was inside 7 World Trade Center when it began to collapse. The 34-year-old detective was one of the first responders to the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, spending 470 hours searching for victims in the debris at Ground Zero. ...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Health troubles persist for 9/11 rescue workers
- It was late in the night when James Zadroga, sleeping beside his 4-year-old daughter, woke up to fetch her some milk. It was no easy errand: The former New York City police detective's lungs were so scarred that he needed supplemental oxygen to breathe. In 2001, after the attack...
- Research articles 2006-06-26
- Katrina survivors build ship with steel from World Trade Center
- NEW ORLEANS, United States AFP — In a dusty, sun-baked shipyard on the banks of the Mississippi River, survivors of America's greatest natural disaster are using steel salvaged from another tragedy -- the September 11 attacks -- to build a ship for military or humanitarian missions. Workers at Northrop...
- Research articles 2006-06-08
- Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization Honors Asbestos Victims on Workers Memorial Day; Day of Remembrance Promotes Increased Awareness about the Dangers of Asbestos
- WASHINGTON -- The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization ADAO, an organization dedicated to serving as the voice of asbestos victims, honors and remembers the 56,000 workers killed due to work-related fatalities on Workers Memorial Day. Asbestos exposure is the world's leading cause of cancer in the workplace. Although asbestos production...
- Research articles 2006-04-28
- Workers press on with Deutsche dismantling
- With the completion of 7 World Trade Center and the development of the WTC Transportation Hub, it's clear that progress is finally underway in Lower Manhattan. But more than four years later, evidence of the September 11th tragedy continues to surface. Last week, the New York City medical examiner...
- Research articles 2006-04-05
- Ex-Windows on the World workers to unfurl Colors
- NEW YORK -- Colors, a restaurant to be owned by former workers from Windows on the World, which was destroyed Sept. 11, 2001, in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center here, has set an opening date of Jan. 7, 2006. The 120-seat Colors, in the Astor Place...
- Research articles 2005-12-12
- 9/11 Cleanup Continues
- For New Yorkers living in lower Manhattan, the abandoned, black-shrouded 40-story building across from Ground Zero has for years been a reminder of how the collapsing twin towers emitted a vast blanket of environmental contamination that may still affect nearby residents and workers. On the morning of September 11, 2001,...
- Research articles 2005-01-27
- THE CRAIC; The Morning That Shook the World
- O'Driscoll, Sean Irish Voice 01-25-2005 Two New York Times journalists, Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Dwyer and Special Projects Editor Kevin Flynn, have teamed up to write the definite account of life inside the World Trade Center on September 11. It's an exhaustively...
- Research articles 2005-01-25
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