The presence of lead in things like gasoline and paint up until the 1970s presented a bevy of problems for Americans, not the ...

New York’s Advisory Council on Lead Poisoning Prevention convened Wednesday at the Capitol to review the state Department of ...

Maryland's Department of the Environment (MDE) is suing a Baltimore-based company for allegedly using radioactive materials ...

Using Arctic ice core samples, researchers estimate silver mining and smelting released enough lead during the Pax Romana to ...

Thousands of Louisville children have tested with elevated levels of lead in their blood, risking lifelong, irreversible ...

This helps explain why, as countries throughout Europe cracked down on sources of lead poisoning, the United States continued ...

Lead, a naturally occurring metal used to make a variety of products including paints, ammunition, spices, certain cosmetic products, jewellery, toys, waste lead acid batteries, g ...

The City of Dubuque has received a nearly $5.2 million grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department to help ...

The mass production of silver coins in the Roman Empire had an unintended effect: spewing so much lead into the atmosphere ...

New York is introducing a lead paint rental registry to address lead poisoning risks in pre-1980 buildings. Landlords will be ...

New York State is spending millions of dollars to prepare counties for new lead paint rules that are set to take effect later ...