Lead exposure during childhood has long been linked to criminal behavior later in life, notes District Attorney Jason ...

When the federal government ordered cities and towns across the country to determine whether pipes in their public water systems contain lead, the superintendent of Southampton’s Water Department ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Odessa Scherer has led Gingerbread House Day Nursery in the Short North for 30 years. “We care for six weeks up to school age,” she said. It’s the group most at risk from lead ...

Syracuse, NY – Syracuse fell far short of its promise to remove 3,000 dangerous lead water pipes this year. Instead, it replaced only 700 of the lines that bring drinking water into homes. That ...

An estimated 13,000 lead service lines carry water to homes in Albany. The city aims to replace all of them by 2037. Chunks of lead pipe on the back of a truck owned by private contractor Keith ...

The rule mandating the removal of lead pipes is one of the defining public health initiatives of the Biden administration. A major water utility business group sued the Biden administration Friday ...

Federal funding worth $3.6 million was secured to replace lead pipes and improve water service and wastewater treatment ...

Milwaukee aims to remove 5,000 lead service lines in 2026 using Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding, but long term ...

Louisiana will get $412,000 in grant funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to remove lead pipes for schools and childcare facilities across the state. The EPA announced in June that ...

ALBANY — On a bright, bitterly cold February afternoon, city workers using heavy equipment bored through a small section of Myrtle Avenue, sifting through layers of asphalt, brick and earth. They were ...