NEW YORK — News that the Trump administration canceled a $257,000 federal contract for research on 9/11-related diseases drew widespread condemnation Thursday among New York Democrats.
The contract would have paid for data processing work to compare cancer incidence rates among firefighters exposed to the World Trade Center toxins to firefighters in three other U.S. cities who were not exposed.
Researchers working on the project — the Career Firefighter Health Study — received notice of the contract’s termination last week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to FDNY officials…