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Something to HUD
Feds Withholding Info on Lead-Contaminated Public Housing If the comments of a senior federal housing official, captured on videotape, are to be believed, the government is withholding information on public-housing sites around the country that are contaminated by lead paint. Joseph Smith, deputy director of the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control for […]
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Dr. Jekyll and Formaldehyde
EPA Develops Industry-Friendly Wood-Products Regulation How does the song go? “It’s all the same; only the names have changed.” This time around, it’s the wood-products industry. Since 2002, the U.S. EPA has been under court order to develop a regulation governing formaldehyde emissions from wood-products facilities. Formaldehyde is used as a binding agent in pressed-wood […]
