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.
EPA’s and Unleaded Kids’ tools can help communities project cost savings associated with the neurodevelopment disorder and lead exposure.
Latest version of EPA tool empowers states and others to make decisions by distilling complicated factors into streamlined blood lead level data
EPA’s decade-long failure to ban lead wheel weights leaves workers and families bearing the burden of exposure.
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.
EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule Improvement is a major step to a safer future for everyone who drinks tap water in America.
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.
This is the first time HUD has proposed a formula approach, saying it will “allow more efficient distribution of funding to the highest need communities, streamline the selection and award of grants for communities facing large lead paint problems.” The balance will be competitive and “open to a broader range of States, Native American Tribes, and communities with pre-1978 rental housing.”