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After making the painful discovery that many of the homes his company built on the north shore after Hurricane Katrina were filled with tainted Chinese drywall, Sunrise Homes President Larry Kornman ...

MANATEE — As the Chinese drywall saga unfolded during the past year, one figure has been widely and often repeated: 100,000. That is how many U.S. homes potentially could contain the allegedly ...

MANATEE — Concerns over health and safety issues raised by Chinese drywall could make their make way into the Florida Legislature. Community Advocacy Network, a nonprofit organization that represents ...

A swarm of federal agencies investigating drywall imported from China reported halting progress Thursday on identifying what's wrong with the drywall, establishing a scientific connection between the ...

PARKLAND, Fla. — At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was ...

Question: A weird “rotten egg” smell has been filling our home for several months. Inspectors from our local gas company have come out twice and said they smell it too, but both determined that we ...

Along the Gulf Coast and across the country, it's being called a "silent hurricane." Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana Recovery Authority is urging homeowners who suspect they might have contaminated Chinese drywall in their homes to report the problems to the state. A federal ...

As reports grow of health problems and metal corrosion suspected of coming from U.S. imports of Chinese-made drywall, federal agencies are moving ahead on a multipronged investigation of the material.

* Move aims to help consumers deal with drywall problems * Homeowners blame drywall for nose bleeds, headaches * Emissions from Chinese drywall 100 times above others By Tom Doggett WASHINGTON, April ...

Scientists hope to understand the problem by studying the chemicals in the board. Drywall consists of wide, flat boards used to cover walls. It is often made from gypsum, a common mineral that can be ...