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More than a quarter of homes in Maine were built before 1950, when lead paint was widely used. Lead in the blood of infants and...
Jul 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The purpose of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) grant program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development is to...
Jul 03, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) is pleased to announce a second competition round of Lead Poisoning Prevention...
May 14, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) announced a new funding opportunity to help communities build local capacity and...
Feb 21, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials...
Jan 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) published new environmental health success stories highlighting...
Oct 22, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes is extending the application period...
Aug 20, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed school districts across the country on testing for lead in drinking water....
Aug 01, 2018 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report on air quality, tracking the country’s progress in...
More than a quarter of homes in Maine were built before 1950, when lead paint was widely used. Lead in the blood of infants and children can cause health and developmental problems and affect nearly every system in the body. Maine had required inspection of a child’s home if the child’s blood lead level went […]
The purpose of the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) grant program from the Department of Housing and Urban Development is to maximize the number of children under the age of six years protected from lead poisoning by assisting states, cities, counties/parishes, Native American Tribes or other units of local government in undertaking comprehensive programs to […]
The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative (GHHI) is pleased to announce a second competition round of Lead Poisoning Prevention Catalytic Grant Awards. GHHI’s goal is to grow and strengthen the network of organizations dedicated to advancing the National Lead Campaign to end childhood lead poisoning nationwide. GHHI is making catalytic grant investments in organizations in […]
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) announced a new funding opportunity to help communities build local capacity and advance evidence-based lead poisoning prevention efforts: 2019 Lead Poisoning Prevention Grants: Equipping Communities for Action through the National Lead Poisoning Prevention Network. NCHH invites communities to apply for a bundled award of coaching and support over...
The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), in collaboration with the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA), and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), offered a new funding opportunity in fall 2018 to local governmental agencies housing their jurisdiction’s childhood lead prevention...
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) published new environmental health success stories highlighting promising and useful practices and implementation strategies developed by state and territorial health agencies: Wisconsin Creates Local Adaptation Strategies for Weather-Related Emergencies Ensuring Drinking Water Safety Through the Massachusetts Assistance Program...
The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes is extending the application period for its 2018 grants to state and local governments to control lead and other housing hazards in low-income privately-owned housing. First-time grantees can receive up to $2.3 million for these 3½ year grants; previous grantees […]
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) surveyed school districts across the country on testing for lead in drinking water. Here is a brief summary of the findings: “An estimated 43 percent of school districts, serving 35 million students, tested for lead in school drinking water in 2016 or 2017, according to GAO’s nationwide survey of […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its annual report on air quality, tracking the country’s progress in improving air quality since the passage of the Clean Air Act. The report, “Our Nation’s Air: Status and Trends Through 2017,” documents the considerable improvements in air quality across America over more than 45 years. Between 1990 […]
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