The Legacy of Lead in PA. Cities

We take a step back in time to look at the history of lead — how it was used, how it was banned in certain items, and how it is still u ...

And what is — and isn’t — different since his big discovery in the 1970s. It’s 1957. Dr. Herbert Needleman is on h ...

Even if a community water system’s test results meet EPA standards under the Lead and Copper Rule, it doesn’t mean every home’s wat ...

Nearby states outspend Pennsylvania when it comes to lead. Before Flint, Michigan’s water crisis brought lead back to the fo ...

Historically, engineers and government officials pushed for the use of lead in water infrastructure. Now, removing it will take a lot of ...

Federal funding has disappeared, and the state is focusing on education, not remediation. When David Rosner was a kid, he’d ...

The governor’s office is reviewing legislation that would mandate lead testing for all children under a certain age. Lead po ...

Controlling water’s corrosiveness can affect how it interacts with the piping material and what eventually comes out at the faucet. ...

Madison, Wisconsin replaced all of the lead service lines in the city through an initiative started in 2001. ...

Several cities in Southeast Pennsylvania — including Norristown and Chester — had higher rates of children with unsafe blood-lead lev ...