Judge orders NYC officials to testify about why City Hall initially said records on Lower Manhattan air quality after 9/11 didn’t exist

A judge ordered two NYC officials to testify about why the Department of Environmental Protection initially claimed no records existed on Lower Manhattan air quality after 9/11, before later providing 68 boxes of documents. Advocacy group 9/11 Health Watch sued the city over its refusal to release records, seeking transparency on how the city communicated air safety post-attack.