CCA News & Information Articles

Court: Blackfeet entity can be sued 07-22-2006 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of a federal judge who dismissed a lawsuit seeking repair or replacement of 203 houses on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that residents claim made them sick. In a ruling issued Friday, the court reversed the district court's dismissal of the lawsuit against the Blackfeet Housing Authority, but agreed with the dismissal of the lawsuit against the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The wood preservative chromated copper arsenate is a substrate for trimethylarsine biosynthesis We report that the fungus Candida humicola will produce this arsine from dilute solutions of CCA and from wood soaked in CCA. Plaintiffs vow appeal of Blackfeet housing case dismissal 02-05-2004 by: Ron Selden / Indian Country Today GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A federal judge has ruled against eight Blackfeet tribal members who sued the federal government and their housing authority in 2002 over substandard homes they contend are making residents ill. While U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon sided with the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Blackfeet Housing by dismissing the civil case on Jan. 12, the plaintiffs want the ruling to be reviewed by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said Billings attorney Tom Towe, who is representing the homeowners with fellow attorney Jeffrey Simkovic. Towe added that a final decision on an appeal has not yet been made. Federal judge dismisses complaints about Blackfeet housing A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit seeking repair or replacement of 203 houses on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that residents claim made them sick. An appeal is expected. Biotransformation of the pesticide sodium arsenate. pub med Hi Everybody, For those of you not up on your forms of arsenic, when you see the words arsine, it means it is in it’s gaseous form. The kind of reaction we are being told does not occur in cca wood. If you have been reading the abstacts I have been sending out you will see that clearly cca wood can off gas through a variety of means. It appears to be able to do this either from the wood itself or from the environments that it leaches into. Nature and the laboratory provide very different settings. Take care everybody and please keep safe. Deborah This Artist Painted With Poison 06-12-2003 Hi Everyone, We are continually told that arsenic in cca wood can not off gas because the amount of heat necessary to do this would only be accomplished through burning. What we are not told is that there are various chemical reactions including the one below that can cause arsenic to change chemically into arsine. This is an extremely dangerous problem if the wood were to be inside your home or near a furnace air intake pipe etc. There have been several reports of people building cca saunas. That is terrifying. There is also a possibility that I have been reseaching on the suggestion of an activist in Ohio that perhaps chemicals not listed in cca are capable of carrying the metals, so that while cca in itself is not necessarily offgassing, the other chemicals give it the ability to move in air. Any ideas or help on this thought would be much appreciated. Take care and please keep safe. Deborah Residents sue over defective homes 09-09-2002 by: Ron Selden / Indian Country Today GREAT FALLS, Mont. ﾖ A group of Blackfeet Indian Reservation residents is suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Blackfeet Tribe's housing agency over 153 homes built with chemically treated wooden foundations. The class-action lawsuit was recently filed in U.S. District Court in Great Falls. It alleges that HUD and Blackfeet Housing officials knew that the foundations were defective and incompatible with the reservation's harsh environment, but they built them anyway. Also named in the litigation is HUD Secretary Melvin Martinez and four current members of Blackfeet Housing's board of directors. Toxic effects of Arsenic 07-09-2002 read about arsenic and its reaction to mold, zinc and aluminum Blackfeet housing leans on crumbling foundation 07-07-2002 residents allege that some of the houses, paid for by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), are causing health problems because of toxic mold and mildew triggered by leaky basements and poorly insulated walls that trap and hold moisture. Families sicken and die in mold-plagued HUD housing 07-07-2002 / Indian Country Today Mary and Gary Grant of Browning helped organize the Glacier Homes Committee to get help for Blackfeet Indian Reservation residents who live in 153 government homes built on wooden foundations. BROWNING, Mont. -- Jamie LaPier was already troubled by the black mold creeping up the walls of her family's home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but the foot-high mushrooms growing out of the basement carpet were the last straw. HUD housing on Blackfeet reservation shows health hazards 04-08-2002 by: Ron Selden / Indian Country Today BROWNING, Mont. ﾖ Residents of 153 government homes built with wooden foundations on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation say they're concerned the structures are causing an array of health problems. They are also upset that some of the homes, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, are pulling apart because the foundations, supposedly guaranteed for 50 years, are structurally inadequate.