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...families still displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita who live in FEMA trailers. The suspicions--that the trailers themselves caused the health problems--were confirmed only on Feb. 14. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the 519 sampled trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi typically contained an average of about five times the acceptable level of formaldehyde gas, a carcinogen. FEMA says it will attempt to relocate all residents before the summer...
...DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI...
...easy to empathize with the investors. WorldCom was the only Fortune 500 company headquartered in Mississippi. My parents had invested in the stock...
...patrons happy. The investigations have also documented how the Corps rarely follows up on its mitigation promises. And this pump would degrade at least twice as many wetlands as all of America's developers drain in a typical year, in a waterlogged area with bountiful fisheries, one of the Mississippi basin's last swaths of bottomland hardwood forest, and one of North America's key foraging grounds for migratory birds. "The Corps has a lot of projects that are horrible for the environment," says Melissa Samet, the water resources director for American Rivers and one of the founders...
...Army Corps makework has become a kind of inside-the-Beltway joke; when I first interviewed Lott's spokesman about the Yazoo pump, he mock-squealed: "Oh, no! You can't tell people about all this pork for Mississippi! Not in an election year! Please, don't throw us into that briar patch!" But it's all seemed less funny since Hurricane Katrina, when Corps failures ruined a great American city. The Corps was wasting money and destroying wetlands with mockeries like the Yazoo pump when it should have been building decent levees and restoring the wetlands that used...