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.
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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.
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.