ST. LOUIS – Two St. Louis home renovation companies have been ordered to pay thousands to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over federal lead-based paint violations. The EPA has fined BBW ...

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.

If you own rental property constructed before 1978 you must presume that the property contains harmful lead-based paint.

Poole, who started April 14, and her newly hired team of two other former EPA staffers will begin their work by focusing on lead-based paint hazards as they build out the new program.

Amarillo crews inspect 20,000 water lines under new EPA lead safety rules. ... All the inspections that are being done looking for lead inside the pipes have to be completed sometime in the year 2027.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The Biden Administration issued new rules through the EPA in October with a goal to eliminate all lead pipes from water systems across the country within a 10-year ...

A Connecticut firm has agreed to comply with federal lead paint laws after an inspection by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency discovered multiple violations. According to an EPA release ...

Two of the tested fountains – old, seldom-used models in Corey Union and Van Hoesen Hall – initially showed lead levels that were above the EPA threshold of 15 parts per billion. (49 parts per billion ...

And it's possible that the tiniest levels of lead may not be harmful for kids. Though the CDC and the EPA agree that 0.000001 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood has not been proven safe, we ...

Following a property inspection in April 2023 by the EPA to assess compliance with the lead disclosure rule and the renovation, repair and painting rule, the agency alleged Chinburg had violated ...