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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Environment - "Congress asks about trailers made in state"

Maureen Groppe of Gannett reports today in a story that begins:

WASHINGTON -- Congress wants the presidents of four Indiana trailer manufacturers to testify under oath about high formaldehyde levels found in trailers they sold the federal government as temporary homes for hurricane victims.
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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee sent letters yesterday to the four Elkhart County-based companies -- Gulf Stream Coach Inc., Pilgrim International Inc., Keystone RV Inc. and Forest River Inc.

The letters ask the company's presidents to testify at a July 10 hearing.

Trailers made by the companies were among those found by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to have significantly higher formaldehyde levels than other travel trailers purchased for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, according to the committee's chairman, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

See related ILB entries here.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on June 5, 2008 08:49 AM
Posted to Environment