For over a decade, the Environmental Protection Agency has mostly failed to enforce a series of health regulations meant to keep people from being exposed to lead-based paint, according to a report issued Monday by an internal watchdog.
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After weeks of reports of Newark’s failure to cope with growing lead contamination in its drinking water, the city announced Monday a $120 million initiative to speed up efforts to replace old lead pipes.
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Paris officials on Tuesday downplayed the risk of lead poisoning from the massive fire that tore through Notre Dame cathedral in April, as tests continue to show worrying levels of the toxic metal at nearby schools.
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The city of Paris has ordered a deep cleaning for schools nearest to Notre Dame, whose lead roof melted away in the cathedral’s devastating fire in April.
Read moreTwo decades of litigation between California municipalities and paint manufacturers culminated in a $305 million settlement Wednesday to help remove the health blight of lead paint from houses across the state.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit revived a lawsuit Thursday seeking to require the U.S. Forest Service to do something about lead ammunition in Arizona’s Kaibab National Forest, finding the court has jurisdiction to decide whether the harm caused by spent lead ammo should be mitigated.
Read moreNewly indicted over its botched response to lead-poisoning risks, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority reached a $50 million settlement Thursday that includes water-line replacements and filters for low-income residents.
Read moreUnnerving North Carolina parents as they prepare to send their children back to school next month, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has reported that drinking water at least 24 of its schools showed high lead levels last year.
Read moreThe city of Flint and several government officials argued before the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday for immunity on a bodily integrity claim brought by a mother and child who drank the city’s lead-contaminated water.
Read moreAfter nearly two decades of fighting, lead paint maker NL Industries agreed Wednesday to pay 10 California counties $60 million to remove toxic lead paint from homes in a settlement agreement.
Read moreMore than 4,000 lead-infested properties will be cleaned up in eastern Missouri, where 9 percent to 17 percent of children have elevated lead levels in their blood, federal officials said Wednesday.
Read moreA third of the vultures caught and tested in the African nation of Botswana for a new study had elevated levels of lead in their blood, likely the result of them eating the flesh of animals shot by hunters using lead bullets.
Read moreA divided Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to update its hazard standards for lead paint and lead dust in homes, saying the agency’s foot-dragging endangers the health of young children.
Read moreChildhood lead exposure is not consistently associated with criminal behavior later in life, a new study finds.
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A northwest Ohio city’s attempt to regulate lead paint in older buildings is facing a constitutional challenge from a group of real estate investors who say the ordinance unlawfully singles out owners of duplexes and other small rental units.
Read moreThe Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Minnesota insurance company does not have to defend a lead mining company from multiple lawsuits in which Peruvian children accuse it of releasing toxic chemicals that permeated their entire community.
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Pennsylvania wildlife officials say a bald eagle that is suffering from lead poisoning is in guarded condition.
Read moreMichigan Attorney General Bill Schuette on Wednesday charged the head of the state health department with involuntary manslaughter for his role in the Flint water crisis and related Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, and also charged others associated with the lead-contamination scandal that has plagued the distressed city for more than three years.
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In another potential showdown between the Ninth Circuit and President Donald Trump’s fledgling administration, the Ninth Circuit indicated Monday that it may order the Environmental Protection Agency to revise its dust-lead hazard standards and definition of lead-based paint.
Read moreA group of Queens residents sued the Metropolitan Transportation Authority over the toxic lead paint chips and pigeon excrement they say rain down onto streets and sidewalks from the 100-year-old elevated Flushing Subway Line.
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