The Center for School Mold Help

"I am committed to pursuing greater funding for the EPA so that its responsibilities are carried out. Clean water, land and air, and ensuring the health and safety of our citizens, especially children, will be high priorities in an Obama Administration" (Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama, Oct., 2008)*.

An Iowa Dept of Health (DHS) services building has complaints of mold from its employees, following flooding. Four are ill. Yet Iowa's OSHA, typical of the national approach, doesn't seem to "get it". They obviously need the training that the GAO Audit on Mold recommends. Another example of the findings of the US GAO on Mold - the government has dropped the ball so badly that OSHA and health departments haven't got regulations or even rudimentary current information on mold and its dangers. "Mold is everywhere"? WRONG! Mold is not supposed to be growing in our buildings. Mold is not supposed to be emitting its poisonous toxins in our buildings. Dampness, which creates an overgrowth of mold and bacteria in buildings, is a proven public health threat - an accepted medical fact. People are not supposed to get sick in buildings. Sick building symptoms are becoming a silent epidemic in America. Apathy and ignorance is no excuse, when the information is available. (SMH)

The long awaited GAO (USA General Accounting Office) Audit on Mold is now posted and public, on the GAO site, as well as here, on the SMH site.

Read about this Sacramento, CA State Board of Equalization mold-infested building that has sickened hundreds of employees, while over 2,300 still work in it. News stories have come out about this building for much of this year - and still, no help for all those in harm's way? Must someone become extremely ill to finally be protected, when it is possibly too late? This is the result of no laws that protect building occupants from dampness, molds and chemicals - all known exposures that harm. (SMH)