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The Environmental Protection Agency has lowered the acceptable level of lead in the air by ten times, but some say that’s not low enough.
The Environmental Protection Agency lowered the acceptable level of lead in the air for the first time in thirty years. Lead expert Dr. Bruce Lanphear served on the advisory panel to the EPA. He tells host Bruce Gellerman the new standard, ten times lower than the previous level, still isn’t low enough.