Posts By: LARC Staff

Authored by Sarah Frostenson and Sarah Kliff – April 6, 2016 Vox Headlines: The risk of lead poisoning isn’t just in Flint. So we mapped the risk in every neighborhood in America. Neighborhoods where kids face the highest risk of lead poisoning exist all across America. The trouble is that exposure risk is surprisingly difficult… Read more »

Headquartered in Chicago, the Lead Abatement Resource Center (LARC) is now the newest member of the Foxglove Alliance (FGA). The LARC was founded in 2014 to focus on the remediation of soil-based lead. It is engaged in collecting, evaluating, inventing, implementing, advocating, educating and researching for effective solutions to lead hazards in the environment through… Read more »

Learn why and how to check for lead contamination in soil and how to garden safely when it’s present. By: Margeaux Emery When to Test Garden Soil for Lead Contamination and What to Do if It’s Present

Read the New York Times article here:More Childhood Lead Poisoning Is a Side Effect of Covid Lockdowns

This week is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week (NLPPW), and the Lead Abatement Resource Center of Chicago is joining several federal agencies in commemorating the occasion. Lead Poisoning Prevention week is dedicated to actions that address the health effects of lead exposure and increase awareness of childhood lead poisoning prevention. This year’s NLPPW theme, Lead-Free Kids… Read more »

According to the New York Times Environmental Reporter Felicity Barringer, there is more lead contamination in America’s cities than any federal or state agency could ever afford to dig and and haul away.  That’s why new, innovative strategies are being explored, including tilling fish bones into lead-contaminated soil, where they bind with the toxic metal… Read more »

Did you know that lead-contaminated soil is a major source of lead intake for children? Urban soil is often heavily contaminated with lead from previous use of leaded gasoline and paints.  In particular, past emissions of leaded gasoline went into the air as an aerosol and then rained out into the soil.  Ingestion of the… Read more »

The Lead Abatement Resource Center is pleased to welcome Susan M. Browning, MPH, as its new Executive Director, effective June 5, 2018.  Prior to joining LARC, Susan served as the Associate Executive Director and Deputy COO for the American Burn Association (ABA) in Chicago for almost 20 years. Previous to the ABA, she was the Director… Read more »

Chicago, Ill., September 9th, 2016—A vacant lot in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago will become a community garden, thanks to Beverly Moores, who has offered use of the lot for a local organization to demonstrate a technique for neutralizing the health effects of lead in soil. In late September, the non-profit Chicago-based Lead Abatement Resource… Read more »

Chicago, Aug. 3, 2016—A Chicago-based group dedicated to remediating lead contamination in soil recently completed a project in Barrington Hills, Ill. to demonstrate a natural method for neutralizing the effects of lead ingested by humans. The Lead Abatement Resource Center (LARC) recently applied a substance called “Apatite II,” composed principally of ground up fish bones,… Read more »