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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.

April 11, 2024April 12, 2024Housing, Lead, Paint

Lead in Paint: Tenants Prompt EPA to Use RCRA to Clean Up Lead Dust in CT

EPA ordered a property owner of an apartment complex in a renovated old factory in Connecticut to assess and clean up lead-based paint hazards after the agency determined the hazards “may present an imminent and substantial endangerment” to tenants. The agency acted pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) as a backstop when the local health department lacked authority to address units where no young children lived.

March 14, 2024April 11, 2024Housing, Lead, Paint, Pipes

Lead in Paint: HUD Asks Congress to Allow Grants to be Awarded by Formula

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.”

February 13, 2024February 15, 2024Lead, Paint

Lead Paint: Rhode Island Summit Highlights New Laws & Backsliding on Registry

Rhode Island held an impressive second annual Summit to End Childhood Lead Poisoning cosponsored by the state’s Attorney General and Department of Health. I was honored to be able to join about 200 people who participated in person on February 2.

January 24, 2024May 1, 2024Housing, Lead, Soil

Lead in Soil: EPA Takes Important First Step to Tighten Limits

The guidance, when fully implemented, should have a significant impact on cleanups where there are industrial and commercial sources of lead contamination, past or present.

January 22, 2024February 15, 2024Housing, Lead

Congress proposes deep cuts in funding to control lead hazards

In an extraordinary move, the House Committee sought to take back $564.2 million in funds appropriated in previous years that HUD had not obligated by executing a grant or contract. This proposed rescission represents almost half of the total funding that Congress appropriated for the grants in the three prior years.