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Category: Paint

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.

December 4, 2024Cleanup, Food, Health Risks, Housing, Lead, Paint, Pipes, Products, Soil, Water, Workplace

Protecting Kids from Lead: 10 Reasons to be Thankful

There have been many wins in 2024, and we are excited to review them.

September 25, 2024November 15, 2024Housing, Lead, Paint

Lead in Paint: HUD Seeks Comments on a New Grant Approach

Changing the way communities receive lead hazard reduction funds is significant, and this comment period could shape prevention efforts for years.

August 14, 2024November 26, 2024Health Risks, Lead, Paint, Workplace

Lead in Workers: CA Strengthens Woefully Outdated Standards

These changes can serve as a model to federal OSHA and other states.

August 5, 2024August 5, 2024Housing, Lead, Paint

Lead in Paint: New York State’s Primary Prevention Path May Be Falling Short

New York State’s rental registry will have a great impact—after it is implemented.

July 22, 2024Air, Health Risks, Housing, Lead, Paint

Lead in Paint: RI’s New Rental Registry Gets Boost from Legislature

Our research shows low compliance with lead certificates, but the sate’s rental registry could help.

June 24, 2024June 24, 2024Air, Health Risks, Housing, Lead, Paint, Products, Soil

Lead in Paint: Contractor Machine-Sands Lead-Based Paint without Protection

EPA’s lead-safe work practices should be the norm. Unfortunately, they are not.

June 6, 2024June 6, 2024Housing, Lead, Paint

Lead Funding: Summer 2024 Crucial for HUD’s Lead Hazard Reduction Grants

By August, the House and Senate appropriations committees are expected to consider HUD’s funding needs and pass funding bills for FY25. Congress should adopt an appropriations bill that addresses the statutory and administrative barriers that have hamstrung the program.

May 29, 2024May 30, 2024Lead, Paint, Products

CPSC asked to tighten lead standards for paint and children’s products

Unleaded Kids joined 10 other organizations in asking the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) to tighten its lead standards for new paint and children’s products.

April 30, 2024April 30, 2024Housing, Lead, Paint

CDC sends mixed messages about sharing of key lead data

Successfully reducing children’s exposure to lead requires collaboration between all stakeholders: private and public; health, environmental, and housing; and federal, state, and local. Collaboration is particularly important when it comes to sharing data that helps identify homes that have already exposed children to lead so that the causes and underlying issues can be addressed.

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