If the family qualifies, the lead abatement would be done for free; funded by grants. The city recently received a $5.7 million grant from HUD. Officials hope that will cover the lead abatement of ...

Louisville Metro Housing Authority has received a big boost to improve the safety of its older residential buildings.

In our news wrap Thursday, prosecutors in Los Angeles are recommending the Menendez brothers be resentenced for the 1989 killing of their parents, the owner of the ship that caused the Baltimore ...

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EPA's announced last week a proposal to lower the action level for lead in Butte. The agency said a similar process will ...

Oct. 20-26 is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week. The EPA encourages parents to get their children tested for lead — ...

DNA analysis of newborns can detect many more preventable or treatable health problems than standard newborn screening does, ...

In a ruling issued Thursday, the EPA is cracking down on lead paint dust that remains in millions of homes and poses a health ...

The new lead dust standards shortly follow EPA’s final rule requiring all lead service lines to be replaced within the next ...

The Biden administration is imposing strict new limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities ...

The federal government banned the use of lead-based paint in residences in 1978, but it is estimated that 31 million houses ...

EPA’s rule designates any detections of the toxic metal in dust as hazardous but steps back from stricter thresholds for ...