Lead dust commonly occurs when paint deteriorates or is disturbed. It can remain in a building even after lead paint is removed, such as in the wake of a renovation.

Lead exposure can cause behavioral problems, lower IQs and slow growth, the EPA said. It called lead in dust especially risky for young children because they crawl and put things in their mouths ...

Jade Shirey carries her son, Benny, 4, at their school in Jamestown, N.Y., on Sept. 18. After getting lead poisoning from paint on the stairs and doorframes of their home, Ben was diagnosed with ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new federal rules to reduce the level of harmful lead dust in millions of homes, schools and child-care facilities. Even though lead has been phased ...

Last month, the EPA finalized stricter standards for removing lead paint dust in pre-1978 homes and childcare centers. The standards are focused on preventing long-term effects from exposure to ...

The Biden administration said Thursday that it was strengthening requirements for homes and child-care facilities to remove lead-based paint dust, a move that could better protect more than ...

Preliminary lead results from a Feb. 22 lead risk assessment started coming back this week showing surfaces that had been repainted and sealed with lead hazard dust on them.

The department has issued orders to address lead hazards at two schools — Golda Meir Lower Campus and Albert E. Kagel Dual Language School — but Trowbridge is the first ordered to close for ...

Any level of lead paint dust in is considered hazardous, according to new requirements for identifying and cleaning up the harmful dust in certain homes and child-care facilities across the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency last month finalized stronger requirements for identifying and cleaning up lead paint dust in homes and child care facilities. The EPA estimates that 31 million ...

State and county officials will meet with residents of a West Salem neighborhood Monday to reassure them that extensive lead dust contamination in and around a nearby commercial building poses no ...

Lead paint upended this boy’s life. Now the EPA is trying to eliminate the threat. The Environmental Protection Agency is about to issue strict limits on lead dust, which poses a threat to ...