I'm From the Federal Government and I'm Here to Help You

Or maybe not.

A week after the 9/11 attacks, then-EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman declared "I am glad to reassure the people of New York ... that their air is safe to breath." But according to former EPA officials interviewed in this documentary ['Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11', the Sundance Channel), the air at ground zero was actually a "devastating toxic soup" filled with asbestos, benzene, mercury, PCBs, and thousands of other contaminants generated by the destruction of the World Trade Center. [from The Week]

Well, that explains the death of a young man way down here in Lykesboro of unexplained resperatory illness. His folks say he was in New York at the site of the WTC to help with the rescue and cleanup.