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Trump administration unveils strategy to protect children from lead poisoning

By Josh Siegel
Published December 19, 2018 4:32pm ET
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Trump administration unveils strategy to protect children from lead poisoning
FILE - This Jan. 21, 2016 file photo shows the Flint River near downtown Flint, Mich. City leaders are floating a shockingly high price to replace the city's water infrastructure damaged after the state’s disastrous decision in 2014 to use the Flint River as the city’s drinking water source without adding a chemical to control corrosion, which caused high levels of chloride from the river to react with iron in the pipes, causing lead to leach into water for a year and a half and contributing to a spike in child lead poisoning before city and state officials fully acknowledged the problem. | (Paul Sancya/AP)

The Trump administration on Wednesday introduced a multi-agency strategy to reduce the exposure of children to lead poisoning in drinking water or in dust that is generated from old lead paint in homes and schools.

Acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, along with Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson unveiled the “federal lead action plan,” which is a big-picture strategy document, and not a formal regulatory proposal.

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