President Biden’s EPA proposes tougher lead dust rules. Here’s what it means in Wisconsin.

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07
Sep

President Biden’s EPA proposes tougher lead dust rules. Here’s what it means in Wisconsin.


A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal would lower the threshold of lead considered hazardous — and therefore requiring abatement — on floors and window sills. Here, a Milwaukee rental home is investigated for lead during a 2015 inspection. (Matt Campbell/Wisconsin Watch)

Aiming to reduce childhood lead exposure, the federal Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a rule that would require property owners to clean up any reportable amount of lead dust detected on floors and window sills at pre-1978 homes and child care facilities.

 

 


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