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Invitation to October Research Webinar
Presentation: Evolving Cancer Characteristics Among World Trade Center Survivors: An Update from the WTC Environmental Health Center
Lawmakers seek federal help as 9/11 pension costs soar
New legislation would authorize more than $5.9 billion to reimburse eligible public employee retirement systems for costs of death and disability benefits that have resulted from the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center.
WTC Health Program Now Wants Decades-Old Records to Prove Breathing Issues
Advocates for survivors of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, are pushing back against a policy change by the World Trade Center Health Program, which tightens the requirements for documentation, in order to receive coverage of “aerodigestive conditions,” such as sinusitis or asthma.
Garbarino, Gillibrand Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Reimburse Public Retirement Systems for 9/11-Related Disability and Death Benefits
As more members of the 9/11 community have developed serious health conditions or lost their lives to 9/11-related illnesses, public employee retirement systems have faced growing costs associated with disability retirement and death benefits.
Why first responders are still dying from 9/11 related illnesses, 25 years later
Nicholas Papain, an FDNY union attorney who has handled thousands of claims to the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund, joins “The Daily Report” to break down the harm to public health caused by the attacks.
Study finds environmental factors may affect long-term health of 9/11 responders
A new study finds where World Trade Center responders live later in life may influence their long-term physical and mental health.
Sept 11 Responders Developing Dementia Find It Is Not on the Federal Program’s Covered Conditions List
Responders who spent weeks at Ground Zero are being diagnosed with dementia at ages when the condition is rare, and the federal program created to treat their 9/11 illnesses does not pay for it.
This Week in People’s History, Sep 16–22, 2026
The struggle over an accurate characterization of the health risk created by the attack continued for years. The official position was always to deny any risk or to minimize it when denial was impossible.
Newly released NYC documents reveal early asbestos concerns following 9/11 attack
City officials knew that poor air quality and toxins including asbestos posed a threat to New Yorkers following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but kept that information from the public, newly released evidence shows.
The Sacrifice Didn’t End on 9/11
Two hundred stories of office building came down on top of us. We did not find the symbols of an office building: no chairs, light bulbs or computer screens. We found nothing. All of it was in the air we were breathing.