Pruitt Touts Lead Reduction Efforts Despite Budget Cuts, Policy Pressure

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is touting his efforts to corral federal agencies' support for prioritizing steps to reduce childhood lead exposures, despite pushing a fiscal year 2019 budget request to significantly reduce EPA work on lead and while the agency faces pressure to comply with a court order to update a lead dust hazard standard. Pruitt Feb. 15 co-chaired a cabinet-level meeting focused on moving forward on a federal agency effort to collaborate on a federal strategy to lower childhood...