Also from last week in the Washington Post FEMA Knew of Toxic Gas In Trailers. "The Federal Emergency Management Agency since early 2006 has suppressed warnings from its own field workers about health problems experienced by hurricane victims living in government-provided trailers with levels of a toxic chemical 75 times the recommended maximum for U.S. workers"
"A trail of e-mails obtained by investigators shows that the agency's lawyers rejected a proposal for systematic testing of the levels of potentially cancer-causing formaldehyde gas in the trailers, out of concern that the agency would be legally liable for any hazards or health problems. As many as 120,000 families displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita lived in the suspect trailers, and hundreds have complained of ill effects." There may be one death already related but investigation was blocked by FEMA lawyers.
Here are video clips of the oversight hearing. Watch the last one (11 mins) as Chairman Henry Waxman questions FEMA Administrator David Paulison.
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