The local hotel union, which recently picketed the Hilton Hawaiian Village, has itself been picketed by Hilton subcontractor employees. In an interesting twist to disputes between Hilton and its main labor union, employees of Team Clean picketed the office of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union late Tuesday afternoon. Nearly 50 people gathered, shouted […]
It’s a tropical oasis on Waikiki Beach with waterfalls, exotic birds and palm trees, a hotel that has hosted everyone from U.S. presidents to Michael Jackson. Now, it has an unwanted guest: mold. The Hilton Hawaiian Village, one of the largest hotels in the world, has closed guest rooms in the newest of its six […]
Sick-building experts from the mainland have identified the mold in the Hilton Hawaiian Village’s Kalia Tower as eurotium, a kind of aspergillus. Despite the unfamiliarity of both words to the general public, the diagnosis, if correct, means a very common mold has taken hold in the Kalia Tower. The American Industrial Hygiene Association’s Field Guide […]
The state Department of Health has been bombarded by calls from residents worried about mold in their homes, said Jeff Eckerd, an environmental health specialist in the state Indoor Air Quality Program. Since July 24, when the Hilton Hawaiian Village closed its new Kalia Tower because of mold, nearly 75 people have called the Indoor […]
ST. PAUL, MN – Have you found yourself suffering shortness of breath, headaches, acid reflux or are you just not feeling quite right, but you can’t attribute it to any specific cause? Perhaps you’ve found it hard to concentrate and you feel fatigued easily, but haven’t been able to figure out why. If you live or […]
Mold, a common term for fungal growth, is one of the most serious and underappreciated sources of damage to library, archival, and museum materials. Mold will grow on any organic host material offering suitable nutrients, including paper, adhesives, leather, dust, and sooty dirt.
Faster than this fungi can colonize ceiling tiles, it has spread across headlines in Texas. Its alleged effects are nightmare material: respiratory trouble, fever, headaches, rashes, bloody noses, memory loss, infant pulmonary hemorrhage. Its names sound equally insidious: black mold. Toxic black mold. Stachybotrys. But now that black mold traces have been found in dark […]
It’s no secret there’s mold in the Henderson County Courthouse. What hasn’t been clear until now is what kind, how much and how harmful. Now we know: some black mold (known as stachybotrys) and lots of aspergillus mold has been identified; and, yes, both can be harmful. The Athens Daily Review has obtained a preliminary […]
by Catrine Johansson, The Orange County Register A mother says she and her 3 sons were sickened by fungus inside the walls of a Fullerton apartment complex A mother and her three children who claimed that their mold-infested apartment made them sick have won a $900,000 settlement, the latest in a wave of big-money payouts […]
by Thom Marshall, Houston Chronicle How can anyone in Houston, Texas, the AC capital of the entire world, be on the verge of losing his home for following a doctor’s advice to put a little unit in the bedroom window? About four years ago, Mohammad Hashmi’s doctor told him he needs a window-unit air conditioner […]
by Julia Lyon, The Bulletin During lunch on Oct. 25, teachers on the south side of the Early Childhood Education Center complained of a strong, unidentifiable smell. Later office workers all over the reservation began to complain about feeling sick. Tribal officials hired environmental consultants. They monitored air quality in virtually every public building. What consultants found […]
Anyone can be a contractor in an unregulated industry. Bill Thomas bought a $265,000 lemon. The Cherokee County house was supposed to be his dream home: five bedrooms and a full basement on a cul-de-sac lot backing up to a shady stand of trees. Ornate moldings, built-in bookshelves and columns grace the interior. The subdivision, […]
Homeowners, builders and insurance companies increasingly are wrestling in court. Carmel, IN – The kitchen calendar reads January 2003. The clock on the stove perpetually flashes 12:00. The day Mary McKinstray fled her $250,000 Carmel home and her possessions is frozen in time. “My doctor said, ‘If you value your life, never go in that house again,’ […]
By Eloise Aguiar – Writer, Advertiser Windward O’ahuPosted on: Thursday, August 8, 2002 HAU’ULA – Half of the shelves in the Hau’ula Elementary School library sit empty after mold destroyed about $60,000 worth of books and forced the closure of the facility all of last school year because of potential health risks. But finally the […]
When Beverly Hammond discovered black and green mold growing in her hall closet last fall, she wanted her family to evacuate the house immediately. She suspected the gooey fungus was causing her husband’s frequent nosebleeds and her 16-year-old daughter’s sudden memory loss. Toxic mold can cause such symptoms, she knew, but she had no idea […]
By Jules Crittenden : The Herald Sunday, December 14, 2003 It sounds like a horror movie: Black mold that grows out of control on the walls, out of the light switches, sickening everyone in the house and even killing. For several Massachusetts families and possibly hundreds across the country, the nightmare is a reality that […]
by Beverly J. Lydick, Tribune Staff When Nikki Swanson moved into the yellow house on Nickerson Road, she planned to stay forever. After all, the two-story frame house, built in the 1860s, had been in her mother’s family for three generations and Swanson looked forward to raising her own family in the very same rooms. […]
by Henry Brean, Pahrump Valley TimesAugust 24, 2002 But levels at Gabbs, Round Mountain low compared to other areas BEATTY – Toxic mold spores like the ones that shut down Pahrump Valley High have been discovered at three more Nye County schools, but apparently not in significant enough quantities to warrant more closures. The toxic […]
Mold Endangers Children’s Health; A Mother’s Dream When Michelle Harless finally scraped up the money for her first house, she thought she was prepared for the rigors of home ownership. But within months, her Glendale dream home became her worst nightmare, the stuff of that nightmare: mold fed by a leaky pipe. Four months after […]
$1.5 Million Project To Be Completed Within 20 Months POSTED: 6:02 p.m. EST December 16, 2002 CLEVELAND — Officials said that mold has been attacking the county’s shelter for homeless women and children, creating a dangerous environment. NewsChannel5’s Joe Pagonakis reported that the city of Cleveland teamed up with Cuyahoga County on Monday to announce […]
by Candice Williams, The Express-TimesWednesday, August 07, 2002 FOUNTAIN HILL — Claims of unsanitary living conditions in a senior citizen high-rise and a possible illegal boarding house topped residents concerns at the regular council meeting Monday. Four residents of the Clarence Aungst Towers at 1101 Seneca St. appeared before council to plead for help in […]
by Andrew Laxon13.09.2002 Developers and builders have made plans to evacuate more than 100 residents of a leaking housing development which they fear may be contaminated with toxic mould. Herald investigations have established that the 65-unit Silverfield Terraces site in St Lukes is leaking badly and a consultant’s report shows moisture readings of up to […]
Toxic mold will soon be a household phrase. Insurance companies are under siege with claims from homeowners who say this mold is making them sick, and it could cost billions to clean it up. Recently a jury awarded a Texas family $32 million when they claimed mold in their home caused them to have neurological […]
12/23/03 Pottstown, PA – Rain and humidity proved to be a dangerous combination last summer when many local schools were overrun by mold, causing inconvenience for parents, teachers and students. Many students had an untraditional start to the school year when officials in the Boyertown, Daniel Boone, Pottstown, Pottsgrove and Upper Perkiomen school districts announced their […]
4/12/03 Los Angeles, CA – Former “Tonight Show” sidekick Ed McMahon settled a lawsuit against the last of several defendants he sued for toxic mold that allegedly sickened him and his wife, killed his pet and made his Beverly Hills mansion unlivable. McMahon, 80, agreed to accept $230,000 to resolve the dispute, court documents revealed […]
7/12/03 New Orleans, LA – Louisiana has a mold problem, but not all remediation contractors are part of the solution, and the state doesn’t want to admit it. Mold ran Russell and Pamela Vicknair out of their house. In 2002, a sewer pipe under their Baker home burst. State Farm, their insurer, sent out inspectors […]
Eugene, OR – On Saturday afternoon, what was supposed to be the dream house of the O’Hara family will be burned to the ground. Mark and Mary Jane O’Hara believe that the home, off Spencer Creek Road south of Eugene, Oregon, has become contaminated with toxic mold that made them and their two children sick. […]
Stephen Champagne says the mold in his rented Elm Street home has sent him to the hospital twice and is responsible for the headaches, fatigue, memory loss and respiratory ailments he has suffered since he moved in a year and a half ago. His son, who lives with his mother, is no longer allowed to […]
Niagara Falls NY – A Niagara Falls firehouse is closed indefinitely Thursday – not because of budget cuts, but because of black mold. It was moving day at Firehouse #9 in Niagara Falls. Firefighters spent the day covering cups, dishes and other equipment. Battalion Chief Dennis Long said, “We’ve had mold develop in the fire […]
Alberta, Canada – Kathie and Dale Derman with three of their children and nephew Anthony, can no longer live in their Stoney Plain house due to the severe health problems they endured due to black mold in their house. Today, Kathie and Dale Derman are hoping to get permission to destroy their house, contents and all, including a […]
by Michelle Conlin Everything was running perfectly that spring afternoon at the courtyard-style Best Western Springdale in the suburbs of Cincinnati. Room service was humming along at a reliable clip. The floral-patterned comforters were getting fluffed. Kids were splashing in the pool. Then, suddenly, General Manager Jim Crane got an emergency call about a leak […]
Recent discoveries of toxic mold in Davis housing complexes have raised questions about property owners’ responsibilities and tenants’ rights to information when unhealthy mold is found in residences. UC Davis junior Alicia McNease said she and her roommate had to leave their Wake Forest Drive apartment on June 28 because tests showed that high levels […]
Lexington County’s courthouse is closed again for at least two weeks while environmental workers look for mold. This new closure – the second in nine months – was ordered Friday by Circuit Judge Marc Westbrook, the county’s chief administrative judge. The courthouse and adjacent solicitor’s building will be shut down until Aug. 26. The county […]
BATON ROUGE – “You’re not supposed to grow mold in your house.” That’s the simple answer to deciding which molds are unhealthful, Wynn White, an environmental engineer, said. White was one of the presenters at a daylong seminar on toxic molds at the Pennington Center in Baton Rouge Friday. Toxic mold has made its way […]
A music industry executive who bought into the good life on Fisher Island says his luxury condominium is hopelessly infested with mold and he’s suing to give it back. Joseph Rascoff, who represents U2 and the Rolling Stones, claims construction defects and a faulty air conditioner allowed colonies of mold to spread throughout his three-bedroom […]
8/16/02 Guest Commentary by Tamara Warren; Eureka, CA Madera, CA – Madera County will clean and remove mold in the government center, rather than spend $10,000 to study the problem. County Administrator Stell Manfredi said Wednesday that workers will concentrate on a women’s restroom in the east wing of the 91-year-old structure. Supervisors also want to […]
SUBJECT: Toxic Mold in Texas TO: All Freddie Mac Sellers and Servicers Due to recent actions taken by the insurance industry in Texas, toxic mold has become a major focus of the mortgage industry. These actions do not affect Freddie Mac’s requirements for property insurance coverage on 1- to 4-unit properties, found in Section 58.2 […]
Indoor air quality hasn’t made it into presidential campaign discourse so far in the proceedings, but at least one candidate has recent firsthand experience on the subject. Some of the remediation industry’s best consulting engineers, mechanical contractors, and equipment worked to reverse IAQ problems in Austin’s 143-year-old Governor’s Mansion. As a result, Gov. George W. […]
 
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