I just received this EPA Email: Renovations of homes and child-occupied facilities built prior to 1978 must be performed by certified contractors using lead-safe work practices. EPA is currently in the process of determining whether renovation, repair, and painting activities on public and commercial buildings might also create lead-based paint hazards. For those activities that do create lead-based paint… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Lead News
EPA Delays Commercial RRP Until 2017
Big thanks to the Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC) for their news post: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Sept. 13 delayed for nearly three years a proposal to expand its Lead Safe Renovation, Repair and Painting Program (RRP) to include commercial buildings.Read the entire article here
New Court Ruling Against Reinstating Opt-Out Provision
from Bloomberg BNA A federal appeals court June 22 upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to remove a provision from its lead-based paint renovation rule that had allowed contractors to opt out of certain protections against lead exposure (National Ass’n of Home Builders v. EPA, D.C. Cir., No. 10-1183, 6/22/12). Read the entire article here
NAHB Has Impact – Working to Improve EPA’s LRRP
Citing a response to concerns raised by the NAHB (National Association of Home Builders), Reps. John Sullivan (R-Okla.) Tim Murphy (R-Pa.) and a bipartisan list of original co-sponsors yesterday introduced legislation to make improvements to the EPA’s LRRP rule. Read article
CDC Lowers Threshold for Lead Poisoning
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cut its threshold level for defining lead poisoning in children to 5 micrograms per deciliter on Wednesday from 10, marking the first such reduction in 20 years. Source – David Beasley/Reuters via the Chicago Tribune – Read Article
Access the News Room of Your Regional EPA Office
EPA has ten regional offices, each of which is responsible for several states and territories, and each with its own Newsroom. Visit the EPA Newsrooms Page and scroll down to the United States map and select a region by clicking within the area of the map covered by the region, or choose your state in… Continue Reading