The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it is lowering recommended screening levels for assessing and remediating lead-contaminated soil in residential areas. The ...

Arctic zone: 2.2 mg/kg Under 40 inch zone: 1.6 mg/kg Over 40 inch zone: 1.3 mg/kg Resident non-cancer hazard: 0.028 mg/kg Commercial/industrial non-cancer hazard: 0.37 mg/kg Construction worker ...

Roughly one in four U.S. households have soil exceeding the new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's lead screening levels of 200 parts per million (ppm), halved from the previous level of 400 ppm, ...

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Representative soil sample testing done in a Los Angeles County Public Health study found a higher percentage of samples with lead levels above health-based screening thresholds taken from parcels ...

The Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment will host a soil testing event Saturday at the Greeley Farmers’ Market as part of the department’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention ...

Soil in properties downwind from the Eaton fire burn zone did indeed have soil containing lead levels above health-based screening thresholds, Los Angeles County Public Health officials said late ...

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An Eagan neighborhood is starting to get results from soil sample tests done after elevated levels of lead were detected in the air near the Gopher Resource recycling facility. The free soil screening ...