If you're thinking about testing for lead paint in your home, you're doing the right thing. Lead is a chemical that's not to ...

Thousands of families in Louisville are intimately familiar with the devastating reality of childhood lead exposure, but thousands more may be completely unaware that a dangerous neurotoxin is ...

More than one-third of home test kits sent in for testing by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead — results that reflect many New Yorkers’ continued ...

Some North Carolina schools and daycares will soon be tested for lead and asbestos. State leaders told the State Board of Education on Wednesday the plan so far is to start with elementary schools and ...

NOTE: Onslow County Schools has clarified who will be eligible for the lead testing. Details are updated in the below story. SWANSBORO, N.C. (WNCT) — A recent inspection at a Swansboro Elementary ...

UNDER BACK TO THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE FOR A TEST WITH A LARGE NUMBER OF OLDER HOMES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. WITH OLDER PAINT. DOCTORS SAY KIDS IN THE GRANITE STATE NEED TO GET THEIR LEAD LEVELS CHECKED ONCE ...

This story was updated to clarify which children qualify for free lead testing at the Durham County Health Department. With “disturbing” lead levels being discovered in some Durham city parks, ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Is there lead and asbestos at your kids' school? In North Carolina, testing for lead in school water used to be voluntary, but now a law has made that testing mandatory. The ...

When you're in your house, you expect to be safe. If your home was built before 1980, though, it's possible that you have dangerous materials in place that were used as part of home construction ...