EPA Science Assessment For Airborne Lead Seen Bolstering New Rules

EPA’s most-recent update to its science on health and environmental effects of airborne lead helps build the case for tougher regulation of lead in multiple media, as the agency seeks to reduce exposures in air, water and soil, public health advocates say, even as the update does not depart radically from prior findings that identify no safe level of the metal. In its final integrated science assessment (ISA) released in January, and announced in the Federal Register last month,...