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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to ...

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 ...

When complaints of possible formaldehyde poisoning surfaced, FEMA officials insisted in early 2006 that the trailers were safe. But after coming under increasing pressure, FEMA enlisted the CDC’s help ...

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 ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will keep selling and donating surplus disaster-relief trailers despite concerns that they may have unhealthy levels of formaldehyde, the ...

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 ...