Facing a lawsuit from environmentalists to take action, the EPA announced its first lead air concentration standards in 30 years. As the New York Times’ Matthew Wald explains, lead is a much greater problem in gasoline. But in some communities, close to steel foundries or mining operations, dangerous levels of lead can exist.

Like any EPA regulation story, the new lead standards cannot be complete with the following: The agency overruled the unanimous recommendations of its scientists who called for a stricter standard.  Read Wald here.  MB

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