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They’re baaack: Formaldehyde-filled FEMA Trailers Housing Gulf Spill Workers

That’s the tongue-in-cheek image we used when the General Services Administration put the FEMA formaldehyde tainted trailers up for sale. We wondered “who would think of buying them and what they could possibly doing with them.” Now we know; they are reselling them and using them to house workers cleaning up the spill. Four years or so after their manufacture, one would think that much of that formaldehyde had outgassed already; that’s what the industry says about formaldehyde binders in particle board and plywood. But evidently they still stink…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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They’re baaack: Formaldehyde-filled FEMA Trailers Housing Gulf Spill Workers

Adapting To Extreme Weather Impacts – FEMA Flood Hazard Maps Updated, Online, & Free

FEMA Geocoded Flood Map Viewer Interface – Pennsylvania example. Image credit: FEMA This year’s devastating floods in Nashville Tennessee brought more than just ruined homes and the destruction of historically important musical instruments. The broader meaning was well expressed in a headline published by the Ten… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Adapting To Extreme Weather Impacts – FEMA Flood Hazard Maps Updated, Online, & Free

Three Things That Will Change Radically With Climate: Drug & Alcohol Use, & FEMA’s Budget

Image credit: FloodDamage.Data.org I probably could have listed other things that will increase commensurate with climate change: like doomsday cults, prohibitionist movements and radical political groups, for example. But I wanted to focus on investment and budget control opportunities people are overlooking. Let’s start by analyzing the latter. In their 2002 paper, The Political Economy of FEMA Disaster Payments, (pdf file) Garrett & Sobel examined whether congressional and presidential influences affect … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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