The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded three companies positions on the potential five-year, $350 million Tri-State Lead (Pb) Multiple Award Task Order Contract to provide environmental ...

A final rule announced Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency sets limits on lead dust on floors and window sills in pre-1978 residences and childcare facilities to levels so low they cannot ...

The Environmental Protection Agency completed cleanup work at two parks and a former library in East Trenton after discovering lead contamination in January 2024. Tests showed lead levels above 200 ...

In these instances, the EPA requires that the hazard be cleaned up and the area tested to ensure that levels of lead paint dust don’t exceed certain limits. “Today, the Biden-Harris administration is ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule that reduces the level of lead in dust considered hazardous to "any reportable level," which greatly decreases the amount of lead ...

EPA has published a Final Rule which will lower dust-lead standards in pre-1978 homes and childcare facilities. Under TSCA Section 403, EPA must identify and regulate lead-based paint hazards. The ...

As the EPA rolls out new lead regulations to curb lead exposure in homes and water systems, the question is whether these measures will live up to their promises. Lowering lead levels in dust and ...

BUTTE, Mont. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a major change to the way the Superfund cleanup is being handled, and now more mitigation could be required. In an announcement ...

Drinking water systems in Massachusetts must replace all lead pipes within 10 years, according to new federal regulations announced this week. The Environmental Protection Agency will provide nearly ...

Crews excavate water lines during a utility replacement project. EPA’s updated state inventories show about 4 million lead service lines nationwide—less than half earlier estimates—driving a $3 ...

The county health worker scanned the Omaha, Nebraska, home with an X-ray gun, searching for the poison. It was 2022, and doctors had recently found high levels of lead in the blood of Crystalyn ...

A landmark Environmental Protection Agency rule enacted at the end of last year sought to address the lead crisis—which threatens the health of millions of Americans—by tightening limitations on toxic ...