Lead Contamination in the News...

Flint Accused of Violating Agreement to Replace Lead Service Lines
(Merritt KENNEDY, NPR News; December 28, 2017)
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/28/574112798/flint-accused-of-violating-agreement-to-replace-lead-service-lines

E. P. A. Wanted Years to Study Lead Paint Rule.  Its Got 90 Days
(Lisa FRIEDMAN, New York Times; December 27, 2017)
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/27/us/epa-lead-paint.html

Why Lead Standards Matter
(Hannah CHANG, EarthJustice; December 27, 2017)
https://earthjustice.org/blog/2016-october/why-lead-standards-matter


Featured Appeals Court Documentation: 


United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 
(Case No. 16-72816Lead Opinion; December 27, 2017)
https://earthjustice.org/sites/default/files/files/lead_opinion_2017-12-27.pdf


Selected Research Publications:


Case studies and evidence based approaches to addressing urban soil lead contamination
(LAIDLAW et al., 2017)

Lead (Pb) Bioaccessibility and Mobility Assessment of Urban Soils and Composts:  Fingerprinting Sources and Refining Risks to Support Urban Agriculture
(SHARP and BRABANDER, 2017)

Lead and cadmium contamination and exposure risk assessment via consumption of vegetables grown in agricultural soils of five-selected regions of Pakistan
(REHMAN et al., 2017)

Laboratory Measurement Implications of Decreasing Childhood Blood Lead Levels
(CALDWELL et al., 2017)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5709716/pdf/nihms920178.pdf

Prevention of Childhood Lead Toxicity
(AAP Coumcil on Environmental Health, 2016)

The drinking water contamination crisis in Flint:  Modeling temporal trends of lead level since returning to Detroit water system
(GOOVAERTS, 2016)
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pierre_Goovaerts/publication/308978662_The_drinking_water_contamination_crisis_in_Flint_Modeling_temporal_trends_of_lead_level_since_returning_to_Detroit_water_system/links/5a1ae209a6fdcc50adec78c3/The-drinking-water-contamination-crisis-in-Flint-Modeling-temporal-trends-of-lead-level-since-returning-to-Detroit-water-system.pdf










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