Reports that city public water systems that deliver drinking water to 32 million people violate safe lead levels. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) report on the lead `action level' of 15 parts per billion; ...
“There is no safe level of lead,” said Michal Freedhoff, EPA’s assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention. The new rule will bring the United States “closer to eradicating lead-based paint hazards from homes and child care facilities once and for all,” she said....
said public health experts have long understood there is no safe level of lead in a child's blood, yet New York state leads the nation in cases of children with elevated blood levels. Black children in Harlem living below the poverty line are twice as likely to suffer from lead poisoning ...
EPA is proposing new hazard and clearance standards for determining risks of residential dust-lead hazards and associated remediation that would find “any reportable level” of the metal to be hazardous, in recognition of the evidence there is no safe l
“The science is clear: There is no safe level of lead,” said Michal Freedhoff, EPA's assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention. “It is time to finally rid the country of the scourge that lead paint has posed to our children’s health”...
According to the EPA press announcement, scientific evidence has proven that no level of lead exposure is safe, especially for children. In pediatric populations, lead exposure has compromised mental and physical development, impaired learning, and brain damage. Additionally, adult lead e...
“I think it’s really a false choice to say that kids have to choose between safe homes and having homes at all, and I don’t think they have to have that choice made for them with this rule,” Freedhoff said. The new regulation is expected to reduce lead exposure in up to 1.2 ...
The CDC says there is no safe level of exposure to lead, which can cause developmental problems and learning disabilities in children. The dangers of lead came into urgent national focus after lead in water pipes in Flint, Michigan, led to a massive public health crisis. The city's ta...
The Newark school district has now revealed 12 percent of the water samples taken between 2012 and 2015 have also been above the federal limit of 15 parts per billion.Doctors say no level of lead is safe for children. District administrator Valerie Wilson blames old fixtures. ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there’s no safe level of lead in children’s blood. The new EPA rule does not account for lead in pipes in people’s homes, leaving it up to individuals to voluntarily pay to replace any lead pipes in their own homes. ...