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Under pressure from the White House, the EPA loosened it’s restrictions on airborne lead standards.

HERE is the article.

EPA documents show that until the afternoon of Oct. 15 , a court-imposed deadline for issuing the revised standard, the EPA proposed to require a monitor for any facility that emitted half a ton of lead or more a year.

The e-mails indicate that the White House objected, and in the early evening of Oct. 15 the EPA set the level at 1 ton a year instead.

And just in case you don’t know why this matters:
Scientific studies have found that lead is dangerous at much lower levels in the human body than previously thought. The studies show that children’s nervous systems are especially vulnerable, and that lead exposure can result in IQ loss and damage to many internal systems.