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Mayor Barrett plans to give millions from federal grant to help tackle Milwaukee’s lead problem

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Thousands of Milwaukee children have too much lead in their systems. On Sunday, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett...

December 1, 2019

The city’s schools, stretched even before the lead crisis, are struggling with demands for individualized education programs and...

November 7, 2019

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday proposed new regulations on lead and copper in drinking water, updating a nearly...

October 24, 2019

When a therapy dog refused to drink at a San Diego grade school, it was the first clue that something was wrong with the water. Water tests...

October 24, 2019

While many school districts in the United States have made big pushes to add technology to their campuses, a new federal report makes clear...

July 31, 2019

Children & pregnant women are especially vulnerable to the effects of lead exposure...

July 23, 2019

A mum has told of her shock after discovering that her three-year-old son has lead poisoning, which she believes he was exposed to in...

July 16, 2019

What’s more, an undetermined number of water systems with lead problems in their water do not report heightened lead levels to the...

July 11, 2019

Marc Edwards, a civil engineering professor at Virginia Tech, calls the Albuquerque Public Schools lead-testing water results “moderately...

June 24, 2019

One of the North Jersey homes that was found recently to have elevated levels of lead in its tap water had fives times the federal standard...

January 18, 2019