The Environmental Protection Agency’s new standards to protect children and pregnant women from lead-based paints are too lax and should be reweighed, a coalition of environmental and other groups allege in the Ninth Circuit.
The groups include the Sierra Club, A Community Voice, California Communities Against Toxics, and United Parents Against Lead National.
They claim in their Wednesday opening brief that a recent EPA final rule failed to properly set lead based paint (LBP) hazard standards “at levels that identify what current science recognizes to be dangerous lead conditions.”
The group filed its initial petition for review in August.
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