Manhattanite Says NYCHA Won’t Rub Out Her Stubborn Mold Problem – Doctor says Mold is reason for son’s cough & respiratory problems – NYCHA paints over Mold

National Apartment Association Tells Its Members MOLD CAUSES DEATH; Tells Courts It Doesn’t With The Help of US Chamber and UCLA

Thank You National Apartment Association. I will do my best to get this very important information out ASAP to numerous owners, investors, huge property management companies (e.g., Riverstone Residential), attorneys, and judges, AND, of course, to the MANY people who are currently living in MOLD-INFESTED APARTMENT COMPLEXES right now! katy

By: Susan Jhun

Jeannette Gomez of Manhattan says a severe mold problem in her home is threatening her family’s health.

“My kids, especially my son, were starting to get sick often and I couldn’t understand why he was getting sick. But he always had respiratory problems, either he had the asthma or bronchitis,” says Gomez.

Then one of her daughters became so sick that she had to take a leave of absence from college.

It was not until Gomez told her children’s doctor about the black mold growing all over her bathroom and bedrooms walls that she figured out what was happening.

“I told the doctor that we have mold, and he said that it’s the reason that [my son’s] constantly with the cough and the respiratory problems,” says Gomez.

For years, Gomez says she had been asking her landlord, the New York City Housing Authority, to get rid of the mold.

“Every time, what they do is they just come to the bathroom, they wash it off and they paint over it, but it comes back,” she says.

After numerous unanswered pleas to NYCHA officials to get to the root of her mold problem, Gomez finally took the matter to Housing Court. She documented the number of visits each of her children have made to the hospital and the number of days her son has missed from school — but to no avail.

NY1 called NYCHA and the agency released the following statement: “The New York City Housing Authority takes very seriously the health of each of its 400,000 public housing residents. However, NYCHA must have access to its housing units in order to be able to assess and maintain apartments for the well being of its residents.”

In response, Gomez says she does not want another paint job.

When NY1 asked the NYCHA spokeswoman what the specific plan was to rid Gomez’s apartment of the mold, she said NYCHA’s head of technical services would go out to access the condition.

In the past, she said they removed some plaster and some parts of the wall that were capturing the moisture, and if more has to be done, then they will do it.

Gomez has also requested that NYCHA move her family to another apartment, but so far they have been denied.

For now, Gomez and her family will continue to suffer, but not in silence.

“I can’t live under these conditions, because I don’t want anything to happen to my kids, you understand? I love them, and I want my daughter to go back to school, and I don’t want my son being sick,” says Gomez.

NY1 will continue to follow this story.

brooklyn.ny1.com

U.S. Chamber of Commerce & Deceit in Mold Litigation

TRUTH OUT Sharon Kramer Letter To Andrew Saxon MOLD ISSUE

FEMA Using US Chamber Fraud in Katrina Trailer Litigation; EPA, GAO & Both Isle$ of Congre$$ Turn Blind Eye$

Political Action Committee – National Apartment Association (NAA) files Amicus Brief in mold case (two infant deaths in mold filled apt – Wasatch Prop Mgmt) citing US Chamber/ACOEM ‘litigation defense report’ to disclaim health effects of indoor mold & limit financial risk for industry

New Action Committee – ACHEMMIC- Urges Transparency in EPA Policy Over Mold & Microbial Contaminants

Truth About Mold – the most up to date, accurate, and reliable information on Toxic Mold

Sociological Issues Relating to Mold: The Mold Wars

“Changes in construction methods have caused US buildings to become perfect petri dishes for mold and bacteria to flourish when water is added. Instead of warning the public and teaching physicians that the buildings were causing illness; in 2003 the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, a think-tank, and a workers comp physician trade organization mass marketed an unscientific nonsequitor to the courts to disclaim the adverse health effects to stave off liability for financial stakeholders of moldy buildings. Although publicly exposed many times over the years, the deceit lingers in US courts to this very day.” Sharon Noonan Kramer

Information about Riverstone Residential, the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, and the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana allowing tenants to be exposed to extreme amounts of toxins from molds by intentionally concealing evidence

Irrefutable evidence indicates that Riverstone Residential, Guarantee Service Team of Professionals, & plaintiffs’ attorney, J Arthur Smith III, must have agreed to exclude evidence that would have shown the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments & Riverstone Residential had knowledge of the severe MOLD INFESTATION at the complex before we moved in

Riverstone Residential Litigation

Mold Inspection Reports

Photos of Mold in Apartment

Attorney Malpractice

Links to Riverstone Residential Mold and Illegal Business Practice Complaints and More!

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Methane dead zone found just offshore “linked to oil”; Stretches entire 1500 sq. miles of sample area – Florida Oil Spill Law

Methane dead zone found just offshore “linked to oil”; Stretches entire 1500 sq. miles of sample area

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‘Soulless corporations are the enemy of the environment,’ says Pavan Sukhdev – Environment – The Guardian

Modern businesses are “soulless corporations” that are in danger of becoming a “cancer” on society, a leading UN environmental official warns today.

Companies usually take a short-term view of the importance of the environment, said Pavan Sukhdev, head of the UN’s investigation into how to stop the destruction of the natural world. This short-term thinking is seen in their lobbying against new policies that could slow environmental devastation, he said.

‘Soulless corporations are the enemy of the environment,’ says Pavan Sukhdev

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You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen … Do Not Look! – Washington’s Blog

Preface: The title is a parody of the fact that the government has effectively made it a felony to take pictures of oiled wildlife.

While most of these pictures have previously been published by the mainstream media – and presumably will remain publicly available – that assumption is not 100% certain. By way of analogy, the government sometimes reclassifies as top secret information which was previously declassified.

More importantly, while some of these photos have been widely seen, most have not, and I have never seen them rounded up in a single page.

Jonathan Elinoff has rounded up rarely-seen videos and pictures of the gulf oil spill: Click link below

You Are Not Authorized to See These Pictures of the Oil Spill, Citizen … Do Not Look!

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Pittsburg California Residents Suing National Apartment Association Member, Riverstone Residential, over MOLD

Quote from the article: Contra Costa Times article: “Internet research also turned up similar consumer complaints about Riverstone properties in LOUISIANA, NC, TX & WA.” 

It is very rewarding for me to know that my website, blogs and tweets are assisting others by providing documented evidence that Riverstone Residential knowingly and willfully exposes tenants to toxins by concealing mold infestations. The political action committee to which they belong, the National Apartment Association (NAA), assists them by misinforming the courts of the known health effects of mold infestations. This aids the members of NAA to limit financial liability for tenant illness and injury.  

When helping their members, such as Riverstone Residential, avoid liability for tenant injury and even death, the NAA tells the courts via legal documents that, “years of intense study have failed to produce any causal connection between exposure to indoor mold and adverse health effects”.  They do this, with the assistance of the US Chamber of Commerce and the University of California names on their legal documents used to lend credibility to the false words.

Yet, while misleading the courts that mold does not harm their tenants, the NAA blogs to its members of what must really be done to stave off liability, “..mold can cause major health problems and even death. Don’t let it get out of control and affect your company or your residents”.

This needs to be made to stop!
Katy

“Mold can cause serious health problems. For accurate information about the health effects of mold, go to truthaboutmold.info and achemmic.com.”

ACHEMMIC has the following concerns about the NAA/US Chamber/University of California/Property Mgmt connections that are harmful to the public:

1. The University of California name is apparently being used as an implied signatory of the 2003 U.S. Chamber of Commerce publication.

2. It appears that the name of the University of California is being used as an implied scientific endorsement of the contents of said U.S. Chamber publication.

3. It is our understanding that it is a violation of the California Constitution, Article IX, Section 9(f) for the University of California name to be used to: promote a document of political and sectarian influence.

4. The contents of the document are contrary to recent scientific findings by national and international experts, including some within the State of California.

Information about Riverstone Residential, the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, and the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana allowing tenants to be exposed to extreme amounts of toxins from molds by intentionally concealing evidence

Irrefutable evidence indicates that Riverstone Residential, Guarantee Service Team of Professionals, & plaintiffs’ attorney, J Arthur Smith III, must have agreed to exclude evidence that would have shown the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments & Riverstone Residential had knowledge of the severe MOLD INFESTATION at the complex before we moved in

Riverstone Residential Litigation

Mold Inspection Reports

Photos of Mold in Apartment

Attorney Malpractice

Links to Riverstone Residential Mold and Illegal Business Practice Complaints and More!

Much like the USA went to war based on the frenzied hype and false marketing to decision makers that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; all three of the following these closely related medico-legal mold issue public policy setters, ACOEM’s, AAAAI’s & US Chamber’s, all naming Dr, Andrew Saxon of UCLA as co-authoring and thus all carrying the University of California’s imprimatur, are used in marketing the false scientific concept to the courts and into US health policy that Bruce Kelman and Brian Hardin (the two owners of the litigation defense corp, Veritox, Inc) could legitimately apply math extrapolations to data they took from a single intratracially instilled mechanistic study by Dr. Carol Rao; mix several hypotheticals into the equation; and then mass market via medical associations, teaching hospitals and the US Chamber; what is a nonsequitor of science that flies in the face of the basic tenets of toxicology and common sense. Ie, Based on this one set of calculations, by Hardin and Kelman, the toxic components of mold that are found in water damaged buildings are purportedly scientifically established to pose no threat to human health. Thus, sick little children in the USA, who claim moldy (and insured) buildings are making them seriously ill with chronic immune system inflammations brought on by microbial toxins, are dispicable Evil Doers out to scam insurers – and so are their weeping mothers. (Best summed up by a Sacramento, California judge regarding the science of the Chamber, VeriTox, Saxon and the NAA, Huge Leap of nonscense nonscience).

TRUTH OUT Sharon Kramer Letter To Andrew Saxon MOLD ISSUE

U.S. Chamber of Commerce & Deceit in Mold Litigation

National Apartment Association Tells Its Members MOLD CAUSES DEATH; Tells Courts It Doesn’t With The Help of US Chamber and UCLA

Thank You National Apartment Association. I will do my best to get this very important information out ASAP to numerous owners, investors, huge property management companies (e.g., Riverstone Residential), attorneys, and judges, AND, of course, to the MANY people who are currently living in MOLD-INFESTED APARTMENT COMPLEXES right now! katy

Political Action Committee – National Apartment Association (NAA) files Amicus Brief in mold case (two infant deaths in mold filled apt – Wasatch Prop Mgmt) citing US Chamber/ACOEM ‘litigation defense report’ to disclaim health effects of indoor mold & limit financial risk for industry

FEMA Using US Chamber Fraud in Katrina Trailer Litigation; EPA, GAO & Both Isle$ of Congre$$ Turn Blind Eye$

Sociological Issues Relating to Mold: The Mold Wars

“Changes in construction methods have caused US buildings to become perfect petri dishes for mold and bacteria to flourish when water is added. Instead of warning the public and teaching physicians that the buildings were causing illness; in 2003 the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, a think-tank, and a workers comp physician trade organization mass marketed an unscientific nonsequitor to the courts to disclaim the adverse health effects to stave off liability for financial stakeholders of moldy buildings. Although publicly exposed many times over the years, the deceit lingers in US courts to this very day.”

Sharon Noonan Kramer

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