FEMA issues draft disaster housing strategy, saying government may house disaster victims in trailers only as a last resort and will develop a National Disaster Housing Task Force. From the AP: WA...
Harvey Johnson, FEMA's deputy administrator, told a U.S. Senate panel that FEMA had become a much different agency from the one that was criticized for its post-Katrina performance. The agency wa...
FEMA extends its deadline for accepting proposals for alternative disaster housing by an extra two weeks to Aug. 1.
"WASHINGTON -- The leading producer of travel trailers used by evacuated Hurricane Katrina residents was aware from its own testing that formaldehyde levels in some of its units exceeded acceptable...
The formaldehyde emissions from FEMA trailers may have originated from particleboard, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Congressman Henry A. Waxman, chairman of the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform, requests the testimony of executives from Gulf Stream Coach, Forest River, Keystone RV, and Pilgrim...
FEMA approved the use of trailers for disaster victims as a last resort, contrary to promises to never use them again after Katrina, when high levels of formaldehyde were found in the trailers. Th...
According to a FEMA press release, 34 of the 42 FEMA trailer sites have been closed before the June 1 deadline for relocating families
A study of 144 Hancock County Children did not find a difference between the health problems of children who lived in FEMA housing and those who did not. But the study, done by the Centers for Dis...
A report by Environment California found that some nursery furniture had formaldehyde levels high enough to trigger allergic reactions and asthma attacks in children.
A large study examining the link between a dozen chemicals and Lou Gehrig's disease found that people regular exposed to formaldehyde were 34 percent more likely to develop the disease. The study ...
FEMA agreed to set strict limits for the formaldehyde levels in the mobile homes it buys for disaster victims. The agency said it would set its exposure standard to the CDC's finding of 16 parts pe...
FEMA announced that it would deliver mobile homes to Arkansas residents affected by the Feb. 5 tornado disaster. FEMA began testing the mobile homes for formaldehyde in early March and said it woul...
Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe said the state would accept FEMA mobile homes for tornado victims as long as their formaldehyde levels were 40 parts per billion or lower. Tests on 32 homes designated for...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was criticized by congressional investigators for "fundamental failings" in preventing disaster victims from being exposed to dangerous levels of for...
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