EPA Issues Rules to Protect Kids From Lead-based Paint

To further protect children from exposure to lead-based paint, the EPA is issuing new rules for contractors who renovate or repair housing, child-care facilities or schools built before 1978.

“While there has been a dramatic decrease over the last two decades in the number of children affected by lead-poisoning, EPA is continuing its efforts to take on this preventable disease,” said James Gulliford, EPA’s Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances.

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