Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lot of lead from gasoline, house paint and industrial emissions has ended up in soil, and it poses serious health risks. Jamie ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it is lowering recommended screening levels for assessing and remediating lead-contaminated soil in residential areas. The ...

The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) Board of Directors submitted a March 19th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) ...

The early morning sun shines on an abandoned home on Huss Avenue near the corner of East 59th Street in Slavic Village in April 2014 on the day before it was demolished to remove the hazard. Because ...

Representative soil sample testing done in a Los Angeles County Public Health study found a higher percentage of samples with lead levels above health-based screening thresholds taken from parcels ...

Soil in properties downwind from the Eaton fire burn zone did indeed have soil containing lead levels above health-based screening thresholds, Los Angeles County Public Health officials said late ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Louisville and Lexington, the new federal screening level for lead was exceeded in in 29% and 12% of soil samples, respectively ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is lowering the screening levels for lead-contaminated soil in residential areas, which means more of them could end up being remediated ...