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 »
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2018.06.18 Innovative Approach to Soil Decontamination
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 »
2018.06.08 – Soil is Key Source of Lead in Children’s Environment
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 »
2018.06.05 – LARC Welcomes New Executive Director, Susan Browning, MPH
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 »
2016.09.09 – Englewood Resident Volunteers Property for Lead Abatement Demonstration Project
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 »
2016.08.03 – Lead Abatement Group Undertakes Pilot Project in Barrington Hills
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 »
2016.07.11 – Englewood Community Agriculture Leader Joins Board of Lead Abatement Group
Chicago, Ill., July 11, 2016—Micheal Y. Newman-Brooks, a business manager and horticulturalist residing in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, is the newest board member of the Chicago-based Lead Abatement Resource Center (LARC), an organization devoted to combating environmental lead contamination. Micheal (pronounced “MISH-ell”) grew up in Chicago and attended the University St. Francis, in Fort… Read more »
2016.06.22 – Child in UW-Madison apartment had lead poisoning, prompting order for changes
Public health officials ordered UW-Madison to address chipping and peeling lead paint at an on-campus apartment complex this spring after they discovered a child living in one of the buildings had suffered lead poisoning. Read the full article
2016.06.19 – CPS is testing schools for high lead levels in water: What you should know
In the month since Chicago Public Schools started testing water in schools for toxic lead, results have shown elevated levels in more than two dozen buildings with hundreds of schools still to be tested. With a series of community meetings scheduled around the city this week to discuss the issue, the Tribune talked to a… Read more »
2016.06.05 – Lead Poisoning: A Doctor’s Lifelong Crusade To Save Children From It
It’s 1957. Dr. Herbert Needleman is on his way to see a 3-year-old patient at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Needleman’s a young doctor, 6 feet tall with brown eyes and dark hair. This is the first case of lead poisoning he’s ever seen. And when he shows up, the girl is not in good… Read more »