10,000TH REPORT CONFIRMS TOXICITY IN FEMA TRAILERS
Topic: Once in a Lifetime, Federal Emergency Management Agency03. July 2008 |
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In not-late-breaking news, the Centers for Disease Control has issued a report that trailers issued by FEMA to Hurricane Katrina victims contained dangerous levels of formaldehyde. The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu reports that bad manufacturing and poor Federal Emergency Management Agency oversight of that manufacturing led to wood with formaldehyde levels that can cause serious respiratory damage.
An entire not-to-be-widely-read book could be written about the numerous reports released since 2006 showing toxicity in FEMA trailers. The problem is the federal government itself waited until this February to release their own report, confirming the need to evacuate all the trailers, fast (about 19,000 trailers remain occupied).
This follow-up report coincides with a Congressional hearing on the issue next week. But is there anything more for FEMA, the Centers for Disease Control and their legion of critics to say?-MB
understandinggov.org
But wasn’t it the GOP that pressured agencies to regulate less? Wasn’t the primary basis for Pres. Bush’s appoinments to regulatory agencies that they didn’t believe in government regulation because it interfered with free market capitalism? And didn’t the GOP further that objective by reductions in regulatory agency budgets?
comment at 08. July 2008