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February 1, 2010

Should leftover FEMA trailers go to Haiti?

  • For the RV and trailer industry, which lost thousands of jobs during the recession, the push to send the units to Haiti is motivated by more than charity.
    • By CARLY EVERSON
    Associated Press Writer

    INDIANAPOLIS — The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products on the poor.

    “Just go ahead and sign their death certificate,” said Paul Nelson of Coden, Ala., who contends his mother died because of formaldehyde fumes in a FEMA trailer.


     
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