I was at a public hearing on a Milwaukee Public Schools proposed budget about 20 years ago where the hot subject was whether to reduce the number of painters who were employed by MPS. There were ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Parents, students and teachers from the Oakland Unified School District rallied outside Oakland City Hall Monday afternoon. All of them demanded the district and the city do ...

Three more MPS schools will close to address potential lead hazards on Monday. Trowbridge School reopened on Friday after lead remediation took place. On Saturday, a clinic will be held at Bradley ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Lead poisoning has hit the news recently with pollution from leaded aviation gasoline, poisoning from applesauce pouches, and federal lead pipe replacement projects. But some lead ...

Did you know more than 200,000 Memphis homes have potential lead problems? That's according to numbers from the Shelby County Department of Housing in 2017. To help with the problem the Environmental ...

In Chicago, about 400,000 homes still get their tap water through lead service lines — pipes that connect individual homes to the main water line. And nearly 70% of young children are getting exposed ...

It's easy to assume there's widespread awareness about St. Joseph County's lead poisoning problem. After all, the news several years ago that nearly a third of children under age 7 in one South Bend ...

There are some sectors in life that are covered and saturated by just a few companies. These companies create what are called oligarchies, where they actively compete against one another, and it is ...

Years of deferred maintenance and budget cuts, including a significant reduction in the number of painters employed by MPS, contributed to the current crisis. One takeaway from the MPS lead crisis: ...