Thousands of Hurricane Katrina victims were left homeless and now lingering health problems may be blamed on the toxic trailers that were brought in for emergency shelter. Those toxic trailers are at ...

Alana Alexander brought this Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§2671-2680, action on behalf of her minor son, Christopher Cooper, against the government for injuries allegedly related to Cooper's ...

FEMA administrator R. David Paulison said Thursday the agency hoped to move all of the roughly 35,000 families out of trailers by summer, when hot weather increases formaldehyde emissions. Louisiana ...

Prolonged exposure can lead to breathing problems and is also believed to cause cancer. The CDC initially said in February 2007 that, with proper ventilation, formaldehyde levels were safe in the ...

In the wakes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, more than one hundred thousand coastal residents have been living in FEMA trailers. But just last week one occupant burned to death inside of hers, after ...

People living in FEMA trailers will now get the chance to speak with scientists about exposure to formaldehyde fumes. Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said fumes from ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — U.S. health officials are urging that Gulf Coast hurricane victims be moved out of their government-issued trailers as quickly as possible after tests found toxic levels of formaldehyde ...

Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has warned consumers that 100,000 FEMA surplus manufactured homes and travel trailers will soon flood the market — complete with their formaldehyde vapor ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A federal judge gave his final approval Thursday to a $42.6 million class-action settlement between companies that made and installed government-issued trailers after hurricanes in ...