Number	23985
Subject	Health
Source	ProPublica
State	NY
Year	2008
Publication Date	10/04/2008; 10/23/2008; 11/01/2008; 11/26/2008; 12/19/2008
Summary	In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, people who moved into trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency almost immediately complained about the air quality in them. As complaints mounter, FEMA had an agent of the center for Disease Control conduct a test of the formaldehyde found inside the trailers. Joaquin Sapien explains why it took more than two years for the government to admit that formaldehyde levels in many of the trailers were high enough to increase the risk of caner and repiratory illnesses.
Category	Contest Entry
Pages	25
Keywords	formaldehyde; Federal Emergency Management Agency; FEMA; Hurricane Katrina; Center for Disease Control; CDC; housing; FEMA trailers; air quality; environment; health
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