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Feds Hid Toxic Trailer Danger

Refused to conduct tests even after a death

By Peter Fearon,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 20, 2007 10:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – Some 120,000 Hurricane Katrina victims lived in emergency trailers for months, even though FEMA knew they were toxic, with formaldehyde levels 75 times the safety threshold, the Washington Post reports. Officials suppressed the the information and failed to order tests, emails show, because they...   Read full story »

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