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Sen. Baldwin, Rep. Moore call firings of lead poisoning experts 'haphazard,' urge their return amid Milwaukee lead crisis
Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Rep. Gwen Moore called the layoffs of federal lead poisoning experts "haphazard" and urged their ...
Bill aims to end lead poisoning exemptions for NY insurance companies
State Sen. Sean Ryan and Assemblyman Jonathan Rivera are hoping the legislation will compel insurance companies to crack down ...
Chicago, New York, Philadelphia districts have also struggled to manage lead paint hazards
That's not just a Milwaukee Public Schools problem.
Milwaukee’s Lead Crisis: Flaky Paint, Closed Schools and a C.D.C. in Retreat
Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected ...
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'Buried in hundreds of years of lead paint.' Cleveland takes stock of clean-up effort
The Lead Safe Cleveland Coalition, a public-private collaboration focused on ending lead poisoning, has $71.9 million left to ...
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An Albany neighborhood at the heart of New York's lead poisoning epidemic
It’s when the paint deteriorates, peeling or flaking off the walls, that the serious danger arises, said Dr. Carrin Schottler-Thal, a pediatrician at Albany Med who specializes in lead poisoning ...
CDC denies Milwaukee’s request for help with unsafe lead levels in public schools
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has denied a request fromMilwaukee’s public health department for ...
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Chicago, New York, Philadelphia districts have also struggled to manage lead paint hazards
"Many of the children that we see are slowly poisoned over many months and years," said Heather Paradis, a doctor at Children's Wisconsin, about lead poisoning in Milwaukee during an April 10 town ...