Posted on 07/12/2023 4:02:53 PM PDT by CFW
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 11 announced new proposed rules for lead paint in a bid to prevent hundreds of thousands of children from being exposed to the toxic substance.
Officials predict that the rule will reduce lead exposures for 250,000 to 500,000 children younger than the age of 6 each year, the agency said in a statement. The mandate would enhance the EPA’s regulations under section 402 of the Toxic Substances Control Act, which would revise the standards for how much lead dust can be on floors, window sills, and other locations in older buildings.
“The Biden–Harris Administration is taking a whole-of-government approach to ensure that the most vulnerable among us—our children—are protected from exposure to lead,” EPA Deputy Administrator Janet McCabe said in the statement. “This proposal to safely remove lead paint along with our other efforts to deliver clean drinking water and replace lead pipes will go a long way toward protecting the health of our next generation of leaders.”
According to the EPA, the rule would reduce the “dust-lead hazard standards” to three micrograms per square foot from 10 micrograms per square foot for floors and to 20 micrograms per square foot from 100 micrograms per square foot for window sills “to any reportable level greater than zero in recognition of the fact that there is no level of lead in dust that has been found to be safe for children.” For window troughs, the lead dust levels would be lowered to 25 micrograms per square foot from 400 micrograms under the rule.
The federal government banned lead-based paints in 1978, but it’s estimated that 31 million pre-1978 homes still have them. And 3.8 million of those homes have a child younger than the age of 6 living there, according to the EPA.
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Much like the asbestos scare of a few decades ago. Much of the asbestos in schools was in vinyl asbestos floor tiles and was often encapsulated in decades of floor wax. The floor tiles posed little hazard until they were ripped up in the zeal to remove all traces of asbestos from schools and in doing so hazardous asbestos dust was released.
If the politicians would ban mass shootings in schools there wouldn’t be a lead dust problem.
Yes in the old days before the 1980s lead was what made bright white house paint white. There are still many pre1980 houses around, but the biggest concentration of interior lead based paint would be in older, poorer neighborhoods. Yeah, more likely black areas.
Is that the best you got??? Weak!!
What we are probably seeing is an advance in lead detection, with their claim that “there are no safe levels of lead”.
Pencil “lead” has been graphite since I was a kid.
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