A Convening in Silver Valley of the Public, on Lead

by | 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 –...

Remember Silver Valley

by | 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...

Statement of Lead Professionals to Federal Task Force

by | 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...

The Duty to Update Lead Standards

by | 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...