The chairs of the U.S. House Oversight Committee and the House Judiciary Committee have written Mayor de Blasio to request release of any documents in the city's possession pertaining to what it knew about the air quality in and around the World Trade Center in the days and weeks following the destruction of the World Trade Center by terrorists and the toxic conditions it left behind.
The inquiry comes as the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund reported it had received 3,900 death claims related to WTC health conditions and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that 3,311 people enrolled in its WTC Health Program have died.
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