Erie County Water Authority aggressively removes lead pipes, while Buffalo struggles to spend federal lead hazard funds — ...

MOLINE — HUD Midwest ... time to time with paint. “We used to see how big of a piece of paint we could peel off the window sill,” he said while kicking off National Lead Poisoning Prevention ...

ALBANY – With less than a month to go in this year’s legislative session, two Buffalo lawmakers are pushing for a state law to require insurers to cover damages and losses caused by lead paint ...

After a 10-month delay, New York City has begun using a new tool to test public housing units for lead paint: X-rays. Speaking at a news conference Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio showed off portable ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The City of Syracuse has issued thousands of citations in recent years for lead paint violations; a recent study suggests that the citations aren't translating to prevention ...

Any structure built before the 80s may contain asbestos and lead paint. "The buildings, which are built before 1978, so there is a chance that a lead particle can go out from them," explained Dr ...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Scott Turner to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), cementing another one of President Trump’s Cabinet choices. Senators voted 55-44 on ...

Many of the damaged homes were over 50 years old, some even over 100. Any structure built before the 80s may contain hazardous materials. Chief Justice Roberts temporarily halts discovery in DOGE ...

By 1999, the city had lost its federal HUD ... paint over ancient poison — rather than permanent solutions. Most troublingly, we’ve normalized a reactive system that uses children as human ...

The district's buildings are 82 years old on average, and lead-based paint was widely used in construction projects until its ban in 1978. The closures of three more schools, with others still ...

Horne suspects the paint could have been the cause of a 2014 sample recorded in the town’s required water Consumer Confidence Report issued in 2015 that showed lead at 30 parts per billion ...

There was a bit of lead paint, but hardly enough to explain blood lead levels of over 10 micrograms per deciliter. There was a lead-containing figurine, brought back as a souvenir from abroad ...