Lead in Soil: EPA Weakens Cleanup Action Levels Despite Claiming Lead is a Priority
450,000 children and 1 million adults put at greater risk of IQ loss and premature death by action.
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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.
Lead-Based Paint: Updating Risk Assessments for Dust-Lead Under EPA’s 2024 Rule
Navigating and communicating the changes can be difficult. Here are some tips.
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.
Societal Benefits of Reducing Lead: EPA’s All Ages Lead Model Empowers States, Others to Make Decisions
Latest version of EPA tool empowers states and others to make decisions by distilling complicated factors into streamlined blood lead level data
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.
Protecting Kids from Lead: 10 Reasons to be Thankful
There have been many wins in 2024, and we are excited to review them.
White House, EPA Turn Talk into Action: An Unprecedented October
EPA improved its Lead and Copper Rule and revamped its interior dust lead standards, turning years of talk about “no safe level of lead exposure” into policy and action.
Lead in Water: All Lead Service Lines to be Replaced!
EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvement is a major step to a safer future for everyone who drinks tap water in America.
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.