Lead in Paint: 30-Year-Old Training Rules Undermine Success
EPA needs to modernize training and certification rules for certified inspectors, risk assessors, project designers, abatement supervisors and workers.
Category: Paint
Lead in Paint: EPA Dismisses Concerns About Lowe’s Consent Decree
Agency rejected Lowe’s Home Centers requirement to notify families where past violations occurred or explicitly offer dust clearance testing to new customers.
Lead in Dust: Many Lead-Safe Work Practices Unlikely to Achieve Dust-Lead Action Level
Refined tools could strengthen Renovation, Repair and Painting’s LSWPs to require dust-lead clearance for projects not likely to meet the dust-lead action level.
EPA’s FY2026 Commitments Under Federal Lead Action Plan
EPA plans greater focus on adaptive reuse, tribal needs, and soil cleanup.
Lead in Paint: Protecting Do-It-Yourselfers
It is essential that DIYers get the right information in a timely and effective manner.
Lead in Paint: We Are Concerned About the EPA-Lowe’s Settlement
Increasing corporate transparency and accountability would turn a negative into a positive. Will it be done?
Lead in Water: Updating LBP Risk Assessments and EBLL Environmental Investigations
In lieu of updated HUD guidance, we offer ideas for best practices.
Lead in Dust, Soil, and Paint: Trump Administration’s Alarming Rollbacks
The big concerns: White House floats funding cuts for lead programs; EPA weakens lead-soil rules; and HUD creates barriers to grant education access.
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.
Protecting Kids from Lead: 10 Reasons to be Thankful
There have been many wins in 2024, and we are excited to review them.