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Newly released documents reveal air quality studies in the aftermath of 9/11

WBUR
Published September 9, 2026 at 12:06 PM EDT
FIremen walk through a dust and debris covered street in lower Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. (Richard Cohen/AP)
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FIremen walk through a dust and debris covered street in lower Manhattan Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, after a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center. (Richard Cohen/AP)

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Ben Chevat, executive director at the nonprofit 9/11 Health Watch, which fought for the release of the files.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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