Film: '9/11's Unsettled Dust' Bush EPA Hid Health Risks of Toxic Dust At Ground Zero, Thousands Died

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- Bush’s EPA Hid Health Risks from Toxic Dust at Ground Zero & Thousands Died. Sep 7, 2021. Democracy Now! This week marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks & we look at an enraging new documentary, “9/11’s Unsettled Dust,” on the impact of the toxic, cancer-causing smoke & dust that hung over ground zero & how the Environmental Protection Agency put Wall Street’s interests before public health & told people the air was safe to breathe. Democracy Now! co-host Juan González is a key figure in the film.

He was among the first to expose the public health & environmental crisis at ground zero in a series of reports for the NY Daily News. He says the intense backlash from the mayor’s office & federal officials “cowed” the newspaper, but he has no regrets. “My only mistake was believing that it would take 20 years for people to get sick,” González says. “It took about 5 years for the deaths & the severe illnesses to really become apparent.” Director Lisa Katzman says she made the film because she was a resident of Lower Manhattan who saw the attack & its aftermath up close & wanted “to address the lack of accountability” from city & federal officials.