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The EPA elected to not modify the Pb NAAQS further, but decided to instead focus on the 1991 U.S. EPA Strategy for Reducing Lead Exposure. The EPA concentrated on regulatory and remedial clean-up efforts to minimize Pb exposure from numerous non-air sources that caused more severe public health risks, and undertook actions to reduce air emissions.
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 ...
EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining, No. 23-1229, 605 U.S. ___ (2025) The Clean Air Act (CAA) is the United States' primary federal air quality law, intended to reduce and control air pollution nationwide. Initially enacted in 1963 and amended many times since, it is one of the United States' first and most influential modern environmental laws.
As an example, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has developed the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) [6] NAAQS set attainment thresholds for sulfur dioxide, particulate matter (PM 10 and PM 2.5), carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen oxides NO x, and lead (Pb) in outdoor air throughout the United States.
The new ruling declares any amount of lead exposure as harmful, and limits the amount of lead-based paint dust in homes constructed before 1978 to levels low enough that they cannot be detected.
At locations where there are other sources of lead exposure such as lead pipes, the EPA uses a screening standard of 100 ppm. Many of the village's residential properties are known to have ...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) began regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the Clean Air Act ("CAA" or "Act") from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution for the first time on January 2, 2011. Standards for mobile sources have been established pursuant to Section 202 of the CAA, and GHGs from stationary ...
The Biden administration on Wednesday moved to reduce children's exposure to lead, proposing stricter limits on dust from lead-based paint in older homes and child-care facilities. Declaring that ...