Two years have passed since Colleen Nguyen and her family left their spacious waterfront home in Virginia Beach's Little Neck neighborhood. It is one of hundreds in the region built with tainted Chinese-made drywall, which federal product safety regulators say emits sulfur gasses that corrode metal in homes. Homeowners say the fumes cause illness and make their homes unlivable.

By CAIN BURDEAU,Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday it has found no link between tainted Chinese drywall and the deaths of 11 people exposed to the imported drywall in Louisiana, Florida and Virginia homes.

By Cain Burdeau

NEW ORLEANS

A pilot program to fix homes that were built with tainted drywall made by a major Chinese manufacturer is progressing well and will likely expand, a federal judge said Thursday.

At $207,000, the five-bedroom, 2,700-square-foot home in Williamsburg sounds like a phenomenal deal, even in this housing market.

“Yes the price is correct!” reads the real estate listing in a local online database of homes for sale. “What an opportunity. Property to convey 'as is, where is.’ ”

A Chinese manufacturer that shipped more than 150,000 sheets of drywall to a local supplier has appealed a federal court decision awarding $2.6 million in damages to local homeowners.
Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd.'s filing on Thursday marks the first time that the company owned by the Chinese government has responded to any lawsuit filed against it in the United States.

A Virginia Beach builder says it was legally obligated to fix homes it built with Chinese-made drywall, according to a recent court filing. The Dragas Cos. asked a federal judge to reconsider her decision to deny its claim for insurance coverage for the cost of remediating the homes.

A federal judge in New Orleans on Thursday awarded $2.6 million in damages to seven Hampton Roads homeowners whose properties were built with Chinese-made drywall. U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon ruled that all drywall in the homes should be removed, along with all items that have suffered corrosion as a result of the drywall as well as anything damaged in the process of removal.

Homes built with Chinese-made drywall should be  stripped of all the problem wallboard, electrical wiring and natural gas piping, federal product-safety regulators said Friday.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is leading a $3.5 million, multi-agency investigation into the imported drywall, released guidelines on how the homes should be fixed.

A federal judge has ruled that The Dragas Cos.' insurer is not responsible for reimbursing the builder for the cost of remediating homes built with Chinese-made drywall.

NEW ORLEANS Congressional members are asking the top U.S. fire official to declare defective Chinese drywall a fire hazard.

In letters to U.S. Fire Administrator Kelvin Cochran, congressional members from Florida, Virginia and Louisiana said homeowners should be warned about the fire risk associated with the Chinese-made product.