Our colleague Tim Padgett in Miami has a piece today on what appears to be another problematic export from China. Some U.S. residents are discovering their houses were built using tainted drywall. Tim writes:
It wasn’t until her repairman got fed up with fixing inexplicably corroded air-conditioner coils that Beck finally discovered what she and her homebuilder suspect is the source of the poltergeist: the Chinese drywall of the house’s interiors. Beck is among hundreds of homeowners in Florida alleging that toxic levels of chemical pollutants such as sulfur are issuing from contaminated drywall made in some Chinese factories.