ShareBy Jo Schaper
To paraphrase a late 1960s slogan: “Lead is not good for children and other living things.” It’s a rare month goes by when some state or federal agency doesn’t sing this refrain over and over again.
I’m not here to tell you to sprinkle some every day on your morning cereal. But I [...]

ShareOn Nov. 4, the Environmental Protection Agency issued a letter denying the fishing equipment section of a petition from Mr. Michael Fry of the American Bird Conservancy. The conservation group requested on August 3 that the agency take action under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the manufacture, processing of lead shot, [...]

ShareEPA Region 7 announced plans Nov. 19th to remove and replace soils at 11 schools and 16 child care centers and Head Start facilities in St. Francois County, Mo., because recent testing has confirmed elevated levels of toxic lead in the soil
EPA ordered further soil testing at the county’s schools and child care facilities as [...]

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In a ruling late last week, the Environmental Protection agency said it did not have the jurisdiction to ban lead ammunition under the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. Subchapter IV, Lead Exposure Reduction is the general legislation under which lead hazard and lead abatement rules and regulations resulted in the phaseout of leaded [...]

Share(Sorry for the tardy post. Found while cleaning off a computer desktop on Nov. 5 -JS)
(Kansas City, Kan., October 29, 2009) – EPA has determined that the State of Missouri
needs new or revised water quality standards to protect a 28.6-mile segment of the
Mississippi River around St. Louis that flows from North Riverfront Park to the [...]

ShareEPA Region 7 has awarded a contract to an Ohio firm to accelerate the cleanup of lead-contaminated soils at approximately 800 residential properties within the Madison County Mines Superfund Site in southeast Missouri. More than $9.8 million of the federal stimulus funds furnished by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 is being [...]

ShareThe Missouri Department of Natural Resources will host a public information session to discuss the proposed boundary recommendations for the new lead standard.  The session will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 6  to 8 p.m. at the Herculaneum High School cafeteria, 1 Black Cat Drive in Herculaneum. The proposed designation for non-attainment will [...]

ShareMine tailings are in the news again.
After local residents contacted environmental activist Erin Brockovich (who did not show at two locally scheduled public meetings), Doe Run Company has received an administrative order on July 31 from Region 7 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to modify a 2006 cleanup agreement with the agency, an [...]