Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced the finalization of a rule that declares any detectable amount of the ...

“This paint is 50 years old at this point,” said Michal Freedhoff, assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. “In some cases, it’s even older than that, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it had finalized a new set of requirements aimed at eliminating lead-based paint dust from older homes and childcare facilities. The new ...

Paint that contains lead was banned in 1978, but more than 30 million American homes are believed to still contain it, including nearly 4 million homes where children under the age of 6 live. A final ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a final rule that reduces the level of lead in dust considered hazardous to "any reportable level," which greatly decreases the amount of lead ...

The Environmental Protection Agency announced stronger standards for identifying and cleaning up lead paint in homes and child care facilities built before 1978. The new rule now considers any ...

Lead paint flakes and cracks on the spindles of a porch on a house in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, July 1, 2008. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to adequately oversee state-run ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a ban on a chemical commonly used to strip paint. According to the EPA, methylene chloride, a chemical widely recognized for its carcinogenic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When lead-based paint is identified in a home, the EPA requires that it be cleaned up. (Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune/Getty ...

The new rule now considers any reportable level of lead paint as hazardous. The Environmental Protection Agency announced stronger standards for identifying and cleaning up lead paint in homes and ...