Chairman Waxman Announces Second Hearing on FEMA’s Toxic Trailers

As a follow up to last year’s hearing on FEMA’s toxic trailers, Chairman Waxman announced today the Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday, July 9, regarding the elevated levels of formaldehyde in the travel trailers FEMA provided to victims of the Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005. Chairman Waxman requested information from four manufacturers of the travel trailers with significantly higher levels of formaldehyde and has invited them to testify at the hearing.

NOTE: This hearing was previously scheduled for July 10.