The Wall Street Journal's Siobhan Gorman gives a fairly positive review of FEMA's evacuation and relief efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Gustav. In fact, FEMA is now shifting its energy and employees to South Carolina where Hurricane Hanna is supposed to ...

So says President Bush about the federal response to Hurricane Gustav, the category 2 hurricane that hit central Louisiana yesterday. There is coverage everywhere today about the not-as-bad-as-expected hurricane that, unlike Hurricane Katrina three years ago, did not break the federally-constructed levees that protect the city.

The Washington Post's Spencer S. ...

The New York Times' Shaila Dewan chronicles the problems faced by three Hurricane Katrina victims who are slowly getting off FEMA assistance. The Times discusses how many poor, former residents of New Orleans are in limbo, as they've left a FEMA trailer ...

The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu takes stock of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's already panned plan to provide housing to disaster victims. The 87-page report was submitted to Congress and state disaster relief planners who immediately took aim. The emergency manager for the state of Florida zinged that ...

That was the crux of a Congressional oversight committee hearing yesterday on FEMA "toxic trailers." The Washington Post's Spencer S. Hsu reports that Republicans on the committee argued that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should be blamed for letting victims of Hurricane Katrina dwell in trailers with 500 times ...

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 ...

Nothing is synonomous with bad government quite like the Federal Emergency Management Agency's response to Hurricane Katrina. But should FEMA be faulted for New Orlean's continued failure to recover from Katrina?

The Wall Street Journal's Alex Roth makes the point that road and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were ready to investigate possible health threats from formaldehyde in FEMA trailers given to Hurricane Katrina victims more than a year ago, according to a report by Alison Young in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  But they did not launch an investigation because, according to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have completed a study confirming that temporary trailers provided for Gulf Coast residents stranded after Hurricane Katrina are a significant health hazard.  Spencer Hsu of the Washington Post notes that the conclusions come 23 months after FEMA first heard reports of "formaldehyde levels ...

Spencer Hsu reports in the Washington Post on the decision to bar FEMA employees entering the same kind of temporary trailers now being used by thousands of citizens in Louisiana and Mississipi.   It turns out that FEMA's position on this is entirely correct -- as long as you understand their point of view.