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June 19, 2025June 20, 2025Cables, Health Risks, Lead, Water, Workplace

Lead-Sheathed Telecom Cables: NIOSH Finds Significant Risks to Workers in Manholes

Beyond telecom workers, NIOSH’s report raises significant issues for anyone living, playing or learning around the thousands of miles of lead-sheathed telecom cables that are hanging between telephone poles, often no longer in active use.

May 30, 2025June 4, 2025Health Risks, Housing, Lead, Paint, Pipes, Soil, Water

White House Proposes Potentially Backbreaking Cuts for Lead Programs

The priorities reflected in the early May budget proposal show a misunderstanding about federal lead programs.

May 29, 2025June 16, 2025Food, Health Risks, Lead

Lead in Baby Food: Transparency Update on 40 Baby Food Brands

19 of 40 baby food brands selling products in California are making arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury test results publicly available.

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025Food, Health Risks

Lead in Food: New Study Shows High Lead Levels in Prenatal Vitamins

This research will aid states like California to lead the way on increasing consumer transparency and incentivizing companies to compete for better products.

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025Health Risks, Societal Benefits

Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: Preventing ADHD Cases in Children

EPA’s and Unleaded Kids’ tools can help communities project cost savings associated with the neurodevelopment disorder and lead exposure.

March 9, 2025March 19, 2025Health Risks, Lead, Societal Benefits

Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: Estimating Value of Fewer Premature CVD-Related Deaths

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., so even a small reduction in the risk can yield significant benefits for society.

March 7, 2025March 13, 2025Food, Health Risks, Lead, Societal Benefits

Unleaded Kids Asks Feds to Push Harder for Tighter Int’l Lead Standards for Spices

Codex sets weak international standards so at least 95% of ingredients will pass.

March 4, 2025March 20, 2025Health Risks, Lead, Societal Benefits

Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: Calculating IQ-Related Increased Lifetime Earnings

Spotting the loss of an IQ point in a child is not possible. However, powerful statistical tools enable us to “see” the loss in terms of public health and societal impacts.

January 3, 2025January 3, 2025Health Risks, Lead, Products, Workplace

Lead in Products: California Sees Risks, Prospects for Safer Alternatives to Lead-Acid Batteries

Inaction for the right reasons might send the wrong message.

December 26, 2024December 26, 2024Health Risks, Lead, Products, Workplace

Lead in Products: EPA’s Perplexing Gift to Lead Industry

EPA’s decade-long failure to ban lead wheel weights leaves workers and families bearing the burden of exposure.