NY cleans up after asbestos-tainted explosion
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Workers cleaned asbestos-tainted debris on Thursday from an explosion of a steam pipe that rocked Manhattan as some New Yorkers questioned official reassurances that the air was safe to breathe.
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A small clinic that handled the cases of thousands of 9/11 recovery and cleanup workers is coming under scrutiny.
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Utilities in New York restored electric service to more than 20,000 customers in the northern part of the state on Wednesday after a fast-moving wind storm interrupted power to more than 100,000 customers throughout the day, companies said.
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By James Carlson  By James Carlson  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Environmental Protection Agency workers on Wednesday began removing more than 650 containers of hazardous material from a building at Forbes Field.
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months  after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material  from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World  Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is  also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A new congressional report says the Environmental Protection Agency potentially exposed scores of residents, volunteers and workers to asbestos fibers by not doing more to monitor the contaminant in the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina.
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By Bill Graham, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Jun. 25--Explosions and a fire Sunday at a chemical plant in Richmond left no air pollution problems that could harm residents or firefighters, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency said today.
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NEW YORK  - There is an increased incidence of sarcoidosis and "sarcoid-like" granulomatous pulmonary disease (SLGPD) among Fire Department of New York (FDNY) members who were rescue workers in the World Trade Center disaster, according to findings published in the medical journal Chest.
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Dust that collected in a piece of safety equipment caused a small explosion at a sugar refinery weeks before the deadly blast that killed nine workers, a federal investigator said Sunday.
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About 70 percent of the rescue workers   who picked through the toxic debris of the World Trade Center   after the September 11 attacks suffered respiratory problems, a   study released on Tuesday said.
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A baggage handler hailed as a hero after helping police subdue an attacker at Scotland's Glasgow Airport is being honored in New York for his actions.
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A transformer exploded in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, creating a huge plume of smoke and sending pedestrians fleeing from the scene, but police said the blast did not look suspicious.
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NEW YORK  - After asbestos exposure, men are more likely than women to develop malignant mesothelioma, according to an Australian study.
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The lung disease that killed a police detective who toiled for weeks at ground zero was caused by injecting ground-up pills, not by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, the city medical examiner's office confirmed Thursday.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK  Utility crews were working to restore power to thousands of residents in Westchester County, Long Island and parts of New York City on Sunday in the wake of Ernesto.
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The company said it had worked with health officials to clean and re-stock the affected restaurants.