The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development advised homeowners Friday to take extensive steps to rid their properties of corrosive drywall ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Thousands of U.S. homes tainted by Chinese drywall should be gutted, according to new guidelines released Friday by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The guidelines say ...

At the height of the U.S. housing boom, when building materials were in short supply, American construction companies used millions of pounds of Chinese-made drywall because it was abundant and cheap.

The federal government Thursday defined exactly how homeowners can document that they have problem drywall in their homes in the first of two anticipated steps that could make people eligible for ...

Along the Gulf Coast and across the country, it's being called a "silent hurricane." Between 2004 and 2007, an estimated 100,000 homes in more than 20 states were built with toxic drywall imported ...

The drywall apparently causes a chemical reaction that gives off the rotten-egg stench and corrodes metal. Researchers do not know yet what causes it, but possible culprits include fumigants sprayed ...

Years before it was made public, manufacturers, distributors and builders knew there was a big problem with imported drywall from China, according to documents introduced at a Miami trial. The problem ...

The Chinese drywall passed through South Florida ports with virtually no inspections. Developers claim they didn’t know the imported drywall was flawed when they installed it in as many as 100,000 ...

NEW ORLEANS-- -- NEW ORLEANS-- A New Orleans federal judge awarded seven Virginia families $2.6 million in damages Thursday for homes ruined by sulfur-emitting drywall made in China, a decision that ...

CHALMETTE, La. -- Thomas Stone and his wife rebuilt after their home was flooded by six feet of water during Hurricane Katrina, never dreaming they would face tearing it apart all over again. They ...