The settlement is part of EPA's ongoing national strategy to protect communities from toxic lead paint hazards. Many homes built before 1978 have lead-based paint, which was banned from use in 1978 ...
Yet it wasn't boomers who the study found were most impacted. Rather, it was those born between 1966 and 1986 — Gen Xers and the "elder" millennial cohort — who had a higher incidence of conditions ...
Lead pipe from Flint, Mich., is on display at the EPA's Center for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response in Cincinnati. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Associated Press) ...