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.

The admission comes in court records in a lawsuit filed against the city agency for rejecting a Freedom of Information Law request for an extensive list of documents related to the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in 1993 and 2001 at the World Trade Center.

“I don’t know what to make of it. It’s extraordinary and it’s unexpected,” said Andy Carboy, the attorney who filed the lawsuit against the city on behalf of the nonprofit 9/11 Health Watch.

In 2023, seven different agencies, including Department of Environmental Protection, were sent a reque

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