by Coalition | Dec 11, 2021 | Blog
A Public Conversation On Eliminating Lead Poisoning in 2022 took place 12/9/21 at Boston University, as a project of the class Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations. It was defined as “A gathering based on the concept that lead poisoning does...
by Coalition | Sep 1, 2021 | Blog
BPHC has posted all the reports from its “Community Action on Lead” (CAL) Project, a year-long public conversation, including the final report, A Roadmap of Future Policy and Program Initiatives to Eliminate Lead Poisoning. This effort shows the benefit...
by Coalition | Aug 26, 2020 | Blog
Boston Public Health Commission’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program obtained funding from the National Association of City and County Health Officials (NACCHO) to identify ways to better address lead poisoning in Boston, and is conducting public...
by Coalition | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog
Barbara Miller, who has worked to draw attention to the need for a more concerted effort to help families with high lead exposures in Idaho (EPA has estimated that more than 100 millions tons of contaminated materials were distributed over thousands of acres –...
by Coalition | Jan 24, 2018 | Blog
Barbara Miller of the Silver Valley Community Resource Center, advocate for the clean up of serious lead threats to children, has faced many difficulties standing up for kids. See the Sierra Club blog (Doris Cellarius), 12/21/17 at...
by Coalition | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
Joint Statement of Lead Professionals, Attendees of a workshop at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the Lead and Environmental Hazards Association (LEHA) on Lead and Healthy Housing, Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2017. To the President’s Task Force on...
by Coalition | Jun 15, 2017 | Blog
INSIDE EPA reported that in A Community Voice, et al. v. EPA, two of three appellate court judges in the 9th Circuit at June 12 oral argument “doubted EPA’s claim that it has no statutory duty to revise its lead dust standards”. The case involves a...
by Coalition | Jun 6, 2017 | Blog
If you go to this site, https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=HUD-2017-0029 where comments can so easily be submitted, you will see today that only 36 comments have been received! Yet HUD is in the process of establishing a task force to find regulations that can be...
by Coalition | Apr 29, 2017 | Blog
The Administration’s Executive Order to review regulations is being implemented within an extremely brief time frame. It is being done with inadequate outreach, inadequate notice, and inadequate opportunity for comment. The purposes of review are one-sided in...
by Coalition | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog
At the 2017 Springfield Fair Housing and Civil Rights conference in Springfield, MA, participants in a conversation on lead developed the following statement to Secretary Ben Carson: Dear Dr. Carson, We are writing to you because during your nomination hearings you...
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