City agency has 40 boxes of 9/11 air quality documents

For more than a year, New York City’s Department of Environmental Protection claimed it had no documents related to an extensive request for files about its investigation into the air quality in Lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Last month, the agency did an about-face after calling the request a “fishing expedition” — admitting that it did find potentially relevant documents.

What You Need To Know

The Department of Environmental Protection leaders have publicly talked about its role in investigating the air quality in Lower Manhattan after 9/11

The agency, however, in an extensive request for documents on the subject, claimed it had none

In the last two months, it has reversed course despite repeatedly claiming otherwise

Forty boxes are set to be turned over to t