California’s budget proposal commits $67 million to clean thousands of lead-contaminated parkways in front of homes, schools and parks near the former Exide battery smelter in southeast Los Angeles ...

Photos taken inside LaFollette School and Albert E. Kagel School show chipped lead paint on classroom walls, ceilings and furniture. The schools are among seven that have been cleaned overnight or ...

It is the crushing and hard-to-explain reality in Cleveland that despite more than a decade of talk, research, dollars raised, laws changed, poisoned kids tested, nonprofit partners activated and ...

There’s a good chance that there’s lead in your drinking water: A 2021 analysis from the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council found that 186 million Americans were drinking water with lead ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - As part of President Biden’s push to limit lead exposure, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a new rule that would require U.S. cities to remove all of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio—A plan to vastly reduce lead exposure in some of the city’s most at-risk neighborhoods using a “pay for success” model appears to have died, at least at the scale some had hoped. Other ...

Nearly a year after Milwaukee Public Schools began the work to clean lead out of its school buildings, the district says its classrooms are now lead-free.

Andy Helkey recently took his 10-year-old daughter kayaking at Killarney Lake. Afterward, father and daughter ate a picnic lunch. But first, they washed their hands to reduce their risk of lead ...

Lead will be removed from the soil of 2,500 of the worst contaminated residential properties including dozens of child-care centers near a shuttered battery recycling plant under a plan released ...

When I was a kid, my dad half-joked that the Roman Empire fell because the Romans used lead to make their pipes, thus poisoning their drinking water supply. Even at age 7, I found that one hard to ...

President Donald Trump, Republicans, and conservatives at the Supreme Court are escalating a decades-long assault on clean water protections. Through deregulations and cuts at the Environmental ...

When I was a kid, my dad half-joked that the Roman Empire fell because the Romans used lead to make their pipes, thus poisoning their drinking water supply. Even at age 7, I found that one hard to ...