Editoial: End Lead Poisonig! Get Rid of Lead!
Two Articles in Todays News: US Imposes Strict Limits on Dust From Lead-Based Paint to Protect Children Paint that contains lead was banned in 1978, but more than 30m American homes are believed to still contain it, including nearly 4m homes where children under the age of six live. Lead paint can chip off when it deteriorates or is disturbed, especially during home remodeling or renovation. “There is no safe level of lead,” said Michal Freedhoff, the EPA’s assistant administrator for chemical safety and pollution prevention. The new rule will bring the United States “closer to eradicating lead-based paint hazards from homes and childcare facilities once and for all”, she said. And Half Of US Adults Were Exposed to Harmful Lead Levels as Kids, Study Finds Over 170 million Americans who were adults in 2015 were exposed to harmful levels of lead as children, a new study estimates.
The Articles are based on lead abatement and not lead removal. When I Became a San Francisco Painters Union Business Agent in 1994 there was a Campaign Against Lead. There Were two Approaches in San Francesco, One for the 1% and the Other for the 99%!
- One was Lead Removal in the Wealthy Buildings and the Other was
- Lead Abatement in Public Buildings, Public Housing, Schools etc.
Removal Eliminatea the Lead Problem, Abatement Postpones the Lead Problem. Despite the Fanfare, Abatement is the New/Old Approach to Lead Poisoning! If the Government was Serious, it Would Get the Lead out of Our Lives!