Stacy Kika – November 14, 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced 16 enforcement actions for violations of the lead-based paint Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule (RRP). A priority for EPA’s enforcement program is to protect children, and others, from exposure to lead dust that can cause lead poisoning by ensuring that renovators… Continue reading EPA Fines 16 Firms for Violations of the Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule
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No More Opting Out of Rule for Renovation of Buildings Containing Lead Paint
Jennifer Sulla – July 17, 2012 On June 22, 2012, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit upheld the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) removal of the opt-out provision for work that disturbs lead-based paint in pre-1978 housing. The opt-out provision would have allowed those homeowners who certified that there were no children… Continue reading No More Opting Out of Rule for Renovation of Buildings Containing Lead Paint
EPA Official Promises More Enforcement of Lead Rule
By Tom Scarlett February 2012 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has “begun stepping up its inspections and enforcement” of its Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) rule for lead paint, an EPA official said during a webinar last month. Don Lott, associate director of the EPA’s Waste and Chemical Enforcement Division, noted that his… Continue reading EPA Official Promises More Enforcement of Lead Rule
Lead paint: the court throws the rental market into turmoil – Lexology
Thomas J. Whiteford and Christopher C. Jeffries – November 10, 2011 On October 24, 2011, Maryland’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, issued its decision in Jackson v. Dackman Co., and found that the immunity provisions of The Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Act (the “Act”) are unconstitutional. Previously, the Act provided property owners with… Continue reading Lead paint: the court throws the rental market into turmoil – Lexology
The EPA’s Lead-Paint Lead Balloon
By JENNIFER DEPAUL, The Fiscal Times November 13, 2011 When the Environmental Protection Agency issued a new regulation in April 2010 requiring housing contractors to take extra precautions around hazardous lead paint, businesswoman Kathy Faia followed it to the letter of the law. One of her construction workers in Kenner, La., attended classes to become government-certified in… Continue reading The EPA’s Lead-Paint Lead Balloon