NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should have reacted sooner to concerns about hazardous fumes in government-issued trailers housing thousands of Gulf Coast hurricane ...

Law360 (February 14, 2008, 12:00 AM EST) -- After months of outcry over the potentially dangerous levels of formaldehyde in trailers issued to the displaced victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the ...

We're about to find out if Mississippi hurricane victims have been living through a toxic crisis. On Thursday, FEMA and the Centers For Disease Control announced plans to test the air quality in 500 ...

As CBS News first reported last spring, FEMA has been under heavy fire for failing to acknowledge then adequately address health problems like respiratory illness associated with the toxic chemical ...

A federal scientist said Tuesday his bosses ignored pleas to alert Gulf Coast hurricane victims earlier about severe health risks from formaldehyde in government-issued trailers and once told him not ...

A federal scientist said Tuesday his bosses ignored pleas to alert Gulf Coast hurricane victims earlier about severe health risks from formaldehyde in government-issued trailers and once told him not ...

The CDC will try to create a registry of people who lived in a FEMA-supplied trailer and evaluate the possible health effects. "The FEMA trailer was a nightmare," Westbank resident Aaron Jackson said ...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA provided either mobile homes or travel trailers to displaced Gulf Coast residents who had lost their homes. Residents of these units have raised concerns ...

Federal health officials have confirmed that high levels of formaldehyde gas pose health risks to hurricane victims housed in 38,000 government trailers on the Gulf Coast, and will recommend that ...