Desperation due to a domestic shortage of drywall during the housing boom, combined with a cheap available alternative, led builders to import drywall from China between 2004 -2008. Homeowners with Chinese manufactured drywall are now complaining of corrosion of copper and other metals, a noxious odor, and health problems. The Florida Department … [Read more...]
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Obama Nominates Inez Tenenbaum for CPSC Chair
May 11, 2009 By
Last Tuesday the White House announced that President Obama will nominate long time South Carolina politician Inez Tenenbaum for Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Tenenbaum is the former South Carolina schools superintendent, serving from 1998 to 2007. She ran for the US Senate in 2004. Tenenbaum has been an advocate for … [Read more...]
