NEW YORK Deborah Reeve got a cold, a cough and a fever that wouldn’t go away. It was more than two years after she had left recovery efforts at ground zero. A month later, the nonsmoker was diagnosed with mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer. By last spring, the 41-year-old mother of two was dead. “My wife got killed on Sept. 11 and she didn’t die until March 15, 2006,” said her husband, …
County worker admits to illegal asbestos removal
As expected, a county-employed carpenter pleaded guilty today in U.S. Northern District Court to a charge that he committed conspiracy to violate the federal Clean Air Act.