Lead Poisoning

Parents Protest Plans For Gun Range Next To School

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 05.22.2012

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Connecticut parents are speaking out against plans to build a shooting range near an elementary school, WTNH News 8 reports. On Monday evening, par...

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More Kids at Risk for Lead Poisoning

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Breast Milk, Lead Exposure, Best for Babes, Lead Poisoning, Flame Retardants, Breastfeeding, Parents News

After the CDC lowered the threshold at which a child is at risk for lead poisoning by half last week, the number of children under 6 who are now considered at risk jumped from 77,000 to 442,000.

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Lead Poisoning Threshold Lowered By CDC, Five Times More Children Now Considered At Risk

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.16.2012

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The number of children considered at risk of lead poisoning jumped by more than five-fold on Wednesday, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...

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Frightening New Lead Poisoning Statistics From The CDC

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 05.16.2012

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ATLANTA -- For the first time in 20 years, U.S. health officials have lowered the threshold for lead poisoning in young children. The new standard an...

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Lead Poisoning Prevention Funds Slashed, Costly Consequences For Children's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.16.2012

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When Devon Owens checked his then 2-year-old daughter, Dallas, into the hospital last year, he wasn't sure what to expect. He just knew that routine m...

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Michigan Needs Early Intervention to Reduce Violent Crime

Thomas Stallworth | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: School Attendance, Smart Justice Initiative, Lead Poisoning, Detroit Education, Substance Abuse, Detroit Public Schools, Rick Snyder, Detroit News

Gov. Snyder should be applauded for the crime response efforts in his "smart justice" initiative; however, it fails to commit enough resources toward referring troubled youth to preventive and therapeutic resources.

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Getting The Lead Out: Lead Emissions From Aviation Fuel Continue To Threaten Children's Health

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.12.2012

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Last Wednesday, the environmental advocacy group Friends of the Earth filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, challenging th...

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Nigeria: Child Lead Poisoning Crisis

Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.08.2012

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Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment and dozens of villages remain contaminated two years into the worst lead poisoning epidemic in modern history.

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Your Home's Old Age Might Be Dangerous For Kids

AP | By LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 01.05.2012

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WASHINGTON -- If you've been putting off repairing a peeling windowsill, or you're thinking of knocking out a wall, listen up: Check how old your hous...

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Panel Urges Lower Cutoff For Child Lead Poisoning

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 03.06.2012

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ATLANTA -- For the first time in 20 years, a federal panel is urging the government to lower the threshold for lead poisoning in children. If adopted...

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Global Phase-out of Lead in Gasoline Succeeds: Major Victory for Kids' Health

Peter Lehner | Posted 01.01.2012

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Even small amounts of lead can lower a child's IQ level and shorten attention span. Children with lead in their blood are also more likely to become aggressive, violent and delinquent.

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Victory Declared In Global Phase-Out Of Lead In Gasoline

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Christian | Posted 12.27.2011

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Victory has been declared in a decade-long campaign to globally phase out lead from gasoline. More than 185 countries worldwide have stopped adding...

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Too Much Lead At Disneyland?

Posted 12.23.2011

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What are the scariest attractions at Disneyland? It may not be the roller-coasters, if an environmental group's accusations are well-founded. The M...

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Is There Lead In My Phone Case?

Turnstyle | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Infants, Poison, Lead Poisoning, Lead, Education, UC Santa Cruz, Children, Child, Health, Environment, Science, Parenting, Cener for Environmental Health, Healthy Living News

Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powered ...

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Adult Lead Poisoning Down By More Than 50%: CDC

AP | By MIKE STOBBE | Posted 08.30.2011

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ATLANTA -- The lead poisoning rate for U.S. adults has fallen by more than half in the last 15 years, but it remains unusually high in Pennsylvania, M...

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China Is Hurting Its Future By Not Acting on Lead Poisoning

Joe Amon | Posted 08.22.2011

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Failing to enforce existing environmental regulations and meet health and human rights obligations now will in the end cost China far more -- in renminbi and in lives.

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Grassroots and Clean Air in Pilsen

Cali Slaughter | Posted 06.19.2011

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What happens when exposure to lead emanates from a non-isolatable source, when it saturates your neighborhood through our most precious and fundamental compound -- the air we breathe?

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Lead Poisoning Outbreak Causes Emergency In Nigeria

AP | JON GAMBRELL | Posted 05.25.2011

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LAGOS, Nigeria — A lead poisoning outbreak that has killed more than 400 children in the rural farmlands of northern Nigeria remains "a neglecte...

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Feds Dismiss Recall Of Lead-Laced Glasses Over Technicality

AP | JUSTIN PRITCHARD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Lead, Cadmium, Regulation, Chinese Imports, Product Safety, Cspc, Vandor, Drinking Glasses, Wizard of Oz, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recall, Children's Health, Consumer Protection, China, Home News

LOS ANGELES — A federal agency reversed itself Friday and said lead-laced Wizard of Oz and superhero drinking glasses are, in fact, for adults &...

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Lead Poisoning in Nigeria "Unprecedented"

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Human Rights, Environmental Health, Human Rights Watch, Health, Environment, Nigeria, Children's Health, Zamfara, World News

This article originally appeared in the Global Post on December 2, 2010. Lead poisoning usually causes life-long debilitating illness, not immediate ...

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The Clean Air Act at 40: Still Vulnerable to Polluters' Falsehoods

John Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Lead, Coal Industry, Epa, Clean Energy, Pollution, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News

Forty years ago, Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1970. Nearly every Clean Air Act program that we now take for granted was bitterly opposed by industry. That same pattern holds true today.

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Is There Lead in Your Juice?

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Lead Poisoning, Juice, Kids, Lead, Organic, Organic Fruit, Healthy Living News

A recent test by the Environmental Law Foundation found higher than acceptable levels of lead in both organic and "conventional" juices and baby foods. What are the effects of too much lead?

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Is Your Faucet Making You Sick?

Doug Linney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Lead Poisoning, Environmental-Contamination, Lead Plumbing, Lead Pipes, Los Angeles Unified School District, Lausd, Green News

Since there are many ways that we can still be exposed to lead, we should be eliminating lead exposure wherever we can. Getting lead out of faucets is something we know can be done, and we cannot delay.

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China's IT Poisons

Xiu Min Li | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead Poisoning, Water Pollution, China Pollution, Green Technology, Green News, Supply Chain, Green Living, Water Supply, China, Water Crisis, Information Technology, World News

China's intricate and convoluted web of IT supply chains makes monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations daunting even for local governments.

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Study: Indian Spices, Powders Linked with Lead Poisoning

TIME | Posted 11.17.2011

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After several reports of lead poisoning in Indian children in the Boston area were linked to consumption of Indian spices, researchers at Children's H...

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