get the lead out

“It’s far past time to get the lead out once and for all,″ Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan said Wednesday. “This is a matter of public health, a matter of environmental justice, and a matter of basic human rights.”

The Get the Lead Out assessment by the California Public Interest Research Group gave the state a “C” grade this year for its “middling” policies to protect kids from lead-contaminated drinking water at schools.

Currently, Lopez is working with the Get the Lead Out research project with Occidental College and the Keck School of Medicine at USC.

In April, two identical bipartisan bills — the Get the Lead Out of Assisted Housing Act of 2022 — were introduced and stalled in the Senate and the House.

Congress should take the proposed $75 billion from the Build Back Better Act to fund and pass the Get the Lead Out of Assisted Housing Act to protect the health of our children.