by Eric Cureton | Jul 7, 2020
Beginning this month, the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) will launch a new statewide lead hazard reduction program. This $5.6 million grant award will provide lead paint remediation services to income-qualified families across the...
by Eric Cureton | May 8, 2018 |
In December 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had ninety days to update lead-based paint and lead-dust hazard standards, setting a deadline of March 27, 2018. On March 20, 2018 the EPA filed...
by Eric Cureton | Apr 24, 2018 |
News broke the week of April 9th, 2018 that Johnson & Johnson (J&J), as well as its talc supplier, Imerys Talc America, lost a verdict in a lawsuit brought against the two companies by a New Jersey man. Mr. Stephen Lanzo claimed breathing in J&J baby...
by Eric Cureton | Jan 24, 2018 |
On December 27, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must issue a proposed rule within ninety days to update lead-based paint and lead-dust hazard standards. Additionally, the court ruled the...
by Eric Cureton | May 2, 2017 |
On January 31st 2017, Shannon Steinbauer, HUD’s Lead and Healthy Homes Program Division Director, issued new policy guidance for the Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes’ (OLHCHH’s) Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control (LBPHC) and Lead Hazard Reduction...