EPA Poised To Release Lead Strategy, Teeing Up Revised Soil Cleanup Guide

EPA is poised to release its final strategy to reduce lead exposures, especially in environmental justice communities, after it recently cleared interagency review, setting the stage for the development of revised cleanup guidance that is expected to drive additional investigation and remediation at hundreds of thousands of sites with lead-contaminated soil. “This strategy that we have that’s coming out to reduce that exposure to disparities in U.S. communities is groundbreaking in its attention across EPA programs on how we can...