Washington ― The entire team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dedicated to preventing childhood lead poisoning was laid off this spring as part of the downsizing at federal agencies ...

Lead hazards remain widespread in New Orleans, where over 60% of homes were built before 1980. A 2024 study found nearly 90% of sampled homes had lead in drinking water. Here’s why the Lead and ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week highlights how parents, caregivers, and communities can lower children’s exposure to lead and avoid its serious ...

For more than a century, factories spewed toxic dust across the city, contaminating the soil and causing lead poisoning. We ...

HARBOR SPRINGS, MI – A construction project in Emmet County is taking flight for a future of supporting and studying Michigan’s largest raptor and apex predator. The Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa ...

An Eaton Rapids wildlife rehab center says it has taken in a fourth bald eagle this winter with lead poisoning, two of which have already died from ingesting the toxic heavy metal. "I know these posts ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y (WROC) — In April, the staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) within the agency’s ‘Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program’ were all fired as part of ...

(This story was updated to add new information and correct an inaccuracy.) Frustrated. That's the word to describe how bird conservationists are feeling as more bald eagles are dying from lead ...

Cleveland is showing on lead-poisoning screening what can happen when a community chooses coordination over fragmentation and ...

Editor’s note: Students at SUNY Upstate Medical University are learning more than how to be doctors, researchers and public health experts. They also are acquiring skills to advocate for their ...