Date: Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 9:36 p.m.
So does FEMA actually stand for the Fibbing Emergency Management Agency? Will other situations be added to this as time goes by? Did Chertoff know about this situation and was there any sort of coverup? Will his days at FEMA be numbered?
Whenever you hear someone say, "I'm from the government and I'm here to help," you'd better be prepared to run for the hills.
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Lawmakers Say FEMA Lied about Toxic Trailers
Date Published: Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
It seems as if the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) lied about the dangers formaldehyde in all those Toxic FEMA Trailers that are still home to over 40,000 beleaguered Katrina and Rita hurricane survivors.
Two Democratic leaders of a House science subcommittee alleged yesterday that FEMA manipulated scientific research into the danger of the Toxic FEMA Trailers. In a letter to Homeland Security chief Micheal Chertoff, the lawmakers said FEMA “ignored, hid and, manipulated government research on the potential impact of long-term exposure to formaldehyde.” Representatives Brad Miller (N.C.) and Nick Lampson (TX) cited agency documents provided to Congress that that they say prove that the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was “complicit in giving FEMA precisely what they wanted” to suppress information about the adverse health effects of living in the Toxic FEMA Trailers.
Christopher T. DeRosa, one of the experts at the CDC’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry informed FEMA there was no “safe level” of long-term exposure. The representatives said the CDC and FEMA ignored De Rosa’s warnings, with FEMA going so far as to continue looking until it found an opinion more desirable to its needs regarding short-term formaldehyde exposure...
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