PATERSON — Federal housing officials have awarded the city a $7.2 million grant to cover various costs in removing lead paint and other hazards from 120 homes over the next four years.
Federal law requires such certification for any work that disturbs paint in homes built before 1978. Despite progress in removing lead from water and building materials, old paint remains a dangerous.
Thanks to an infusion of state and federal funding, Minneapolis is expanding a program to provide free lead pipe replacement, starting with high-priority neighborhoods.
The use of tea and coffee for the removal of heavy metal from aqueous lead solutions has been reported. However, those studies were limited to expended dry biomass of coffee and tea and the lead ...