Article: Eye on Safety as Formaldehyde Use Increases

NOAH ADAMS
NPR All Things Considered
05-29-2008
Eye on Safety as Formaldehyde Use Increases

Host: NOAH ADAMS
Time 20:00 - 21:00 PM


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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Noah Adams.

Sunday, June 1st, FEMA closes down its trailer parks along the Gulf Coast. And the FEMA toxic trailer saga heads toward another chapter. In response to the hurricanes of late summer 2005, FEMA bought thousands of travel trailers, 32 feet long, called the emergency living units. Families needed shelter, but the following spring, as hot weather returned to the Gulf, a lot of families really wanted out. The problem was formaldehyde.

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