Doctors Wheezy Answer: Cut Mold
by Jordan Lite / nydailynews.com
Asthma specialists want the city to crack down on mold and other housing code violations that are triggers for the disease.
Forty doctors wrote to Mayor Bloomberg, Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden and Housing Commissioner Shaun Donovan asking for stricter enforcement of mold removal.
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Family Says Mold In Their FEMA Trailer Is Making Them Sick
by Al Showers / wlox.com
Terrence and Erika Orgeron have lived in a FEMA trailer just off Lower Bay Road for more than a year. They say when they first got it, it was a lifesaver. Now they say it's threatening their lives.
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Lake Grove Family Battles Landlord Over Mold
by Patrick Whittle / Newsday.com
The mold at Jo-Elynn Vega's rented home makes breathing so difficult that, she says, the family has to wear medical masks inside the house and her daughter began coughing up blood recently.
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Mold Grows When Lowe's Home Improvement Project Goes Awry
by wral.com
Most installations done by big home-improvement stores go as planned. But when a Raleigh woman discovered an alarming problem with her cabinets and Lowe's Home Improvement would not fix it, she called 5 on Your Side.
Pull out the stove in Jean Coley's home, and the wall behind it is covered in mold.
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2 Contractors Pay $6.5M After Mold Befouls School
by Bill Bowman / COASTAL MONMOUTH BUREAU
The architect and construction company blamed for the mold infestation in Midtown Community School have agreed to pay about half of the $13 million renovation costs.
But the third company blamed for the problem — the project's management firm — made a settlement offer that was...
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Condominium Owners Tell Smokers: Take it Outside
by Jim Buchta / Star Tribune
Residents of a tony, high-rise condominium along the Mississippi River in Minneapolis are among the first to vote to make their building smoke-free, taking Minnesota's battle over smoking bans into private homes.
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