9/11 News Items (9/23/25)
Arnold Korotkin
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Below are summaries with URLs to news articles on the effort to ensure that the World Trade Center Health Program is fully funded. An archive of past articles year by year can by found on the Citizens for the Extension of the James Zadroga Inc. website here.
September 21, 2025 — Spectrum News NY 1 — City agency backtracks on long-standing claim it has no documents on air quality after 9/11
After denying several times that it had any records about air quality after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Environmental Protection has admitted it has found some boxes of documents it believes have relevant information.
September 20, 2025 — NY Daily News — NYC reverses long-running claim it can’t find documents on what City Hall knew about 9/11 toxins
The sudden turnaround, announced in court documents filed Tuesday, comes just days after The News uncovered the fact that the city’s own Department of Investigation was preparing to receive “volumes of data” on the subject from an array of city agencies.
September 19, 2025 — The Chief — NYCERS reverses policy change that eliminated appeal process for disability benefits
NYCERS will walk back a policy change made in January that eliminated retirees’ ability to appeal rejections for disability benefits, Rachel Assisi, the pension fund’s deputy director of communications said Wednesday.
September 19, 2025 — The Chief — FDNY unions, officials rip ‘chaos’ at WTC Health Program
At a press conference Wednesday, Andrew Ansbro and Jim Brosi, the presidents, respectively, of the Uniformed Firefighters Association and Uniformed Fire Officers Association, warned that the health program could run out of funding in 2027 and stop taking new beneficiaries in 2028.
September 18, 2025 — TBR Newsmedia — Memorial remembers those who died from 9/11-related illnesses
On Sept. 13, at the annual 9/11 Naming Ceremony in Nesconset, officials read the names of 364 people who died this past year — September to September — in memoriam for their service after the nation’s deadliest terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001.
September 17, 2025 — CWA District 1 — Remembering Our Members Lost on September 11, 2001, and in the Years Since
We honor the CWA airline workers, telecom workers, nurses, 911 operators, traffic enforcement agents and supervisors, public sector members, broadcast engineers and news crews, journalists and media workers, volunteers, and all of those who played a crucial role in responding to this tragedy.
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