Kip Hansen's News Brief – October 25, 2024 – 650 words/3 minutes
Not safe at any level! If the current government's Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] It has its way, and if any ambient airborne dust is found within an apartment building, then the property owner will need to undertake unusually expensive remediation.
“Wait, that's crazy!”, you might say. But hey, come on, this is the EPA and they're “still crazy after all these years.” (Paul Simon)
Don’t take my word for it, this is from the New York Times:
The Biden administration said Thursday it is strengthening requirements for homes and child care facilities to remove lead-based paint dust, a move that could better protect more than 300,000 children each year from the toxic metal.
Under the new rules, any detectable levels of lead dust in a building will be considered a “lead hazard” and owners will be required to pay for cleanup. Property and business owners who may be affected have expressed concerns about potential cleanup costs.
No, I didn’t cheat… EPA says “any Detectable levels of lead dust in buildings”.
So, how much lead is in the ambient atmosphere (at what levels)?
Of course, there are huge differences, but in terms of air pollution, the U.S. National Lead Concentration Trends 2010-2023 shows levels just above 0.025 micrograms/cubic meter3. This is a detectable level. Air measurements include any airborne particles. In Europe, lead levels in soil are measured in nanograms per cubic meter3. The concentration is 25-35 ng/m3which is the same. The average has not changed much over the past decade.
This means that in the United States and Europe, detectable levels of lead in ambient air are approximately 0.025 micrograms per cubic meter3. Ambient air concentration measurements include any particulate matter (pronounced “dust” – PM2.5/PM10) in that volume of air.
According to a press release from MIT “Testing lead in water requires expensive, bulky equipment that often takes days to get results. Alternatively, it uses simple test strips that only display a “yes” or “no” answer about whether lead is present, but not about its presence. Concentration information. Current EPA regulations require that lead levels in drinking water should not exceed 15 parts per billion, a level so low that it is difficult to detect.
As discussed in the release, new testing systems under development are expected to be able to detect lead concentrations “As low as one part per billion”.
Today, no one wants their children or themselves to be exposed to lead in drinking water, paint on cribs or toys, or paint dust on older homes.
But “undetectable levels” isn’t a standard — it’s just an activist’s pipe dream.
There may be detectable levels of lead in the air around you. A recent document from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) showed that average airborne dust concentrations across all monitoring sites ranged from 0.015 to 0.045 µg/m3.
If the water in your home may contain detectable levels of lead, and the dust in the air outside your home also contains detectable levels of lead, how can you reduce lead levels in your home to “non-detectable levels”?
It's not.
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Author comments:
one obviously impossible goal There is no goal at all. This is ridiculous. No matter how much cleaning and restoration is done, it is impossible to reduce the lead content in A home that is below the level of running water and ambient air surrounding the home. Houses are not and cannot be turned into clean rooms.
The current administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), officials at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the United Nations World Health Organization (UN WHO) may simply have lost their minds. Or maybe they have some secret knowledge from another planet that can make the impossible possible, and they're hiding it in Area 51?
Things are getting weirder.
Thank you for reading.
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