Photos taken inside LaFollette School and Albert E. Kagel School show chipped lead paint on classroom walls, ceilings and furniture. The schools are among seven that have been cleaned overnight or ...

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Thousands of families in Louisville are intimately familiar with the devastating reality of childhood lead exposure, but thousands more may be completely unaware that a dangerous neurotoxin is ...

On the day before Thanksgiving at Milwaukee’s Congress School off the Lincoln Creek parkway on the city's west side, students were out for fall break but the school was abuzz. Workers in yellow wove ...

Please check your inbox for your confirmation. Teachers and staff at a Bridgeport elementary school say they complained for months last fall about peeling lead-based paint and the hazards it posed for ...

You may keep your house in great shape, and you've probably repainted with latex paint at some point. But if your home is pre-1978, you might want to dig a little deeper to keep your family safe. That ...

To get a sense of how lead paint is being handled in Milwaukee Public Schools, the Journal Sentinel requested a year of the district’s paint-related work orders, from February 2024 to February 2025.

Lead paint was banned for use in residential homes in 1978 because exposure to the toxic substance causes severe health and development problems in children. There is not enough lead in lead paint to ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — The lead paint chipping from the walls at 201 Fillmore Ave. is in 5-year-old Trinity Jackson’s blood. Her mom can see it. “She’s angry all the time,” said her mother, Lakeshia Harper.