The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced that it is lowering recommended screening levels for assessing and remediating lead-contaminated soil in residential areas. The ...

The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) Board of Directors submitted a March 19th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) ...

The early morning sun shines on an abandoned home on Huss Avenue near the corner of East 59th Street in Slavic Village in April 2014 on the day before it was demolished to remove the hazard. Because ...

Representative soil sample testing done in a Los Angeles County Public Health study found a higher percentage of samples with lead levels above health-based screening thresholds taken from parcels ...

The Altadena area has a higher percentage of soil samples with lead levels above healthy thresholds than the Pacific Palisades area, months after both communities were ravaged by brush fires. The Los ...

Soil in properties downwind from the Eaton fire burn zone did indeed have soil containing lead levels above health-based screening thresholds, Los Angeles County Public Health officials said late ...

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The Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment will host a soil testing event Saturday at the Greeley Farmers’ Market as part of the department’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention ...

An Eagan neighborhood is starting to get results from soil sample tests done after elevated levels of lead were detected in the air near the Gopher Resource recycling facility. The free soil screening ...