Sentences with phrase «lead paint problems»
He said testing drinking water for lead might make sense in the event county health inspectors fail to find any lead paint problems in the home.
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They called for making the city's housing more livable, reforming housing court and addressing the serious health problems that result from lead paint, dust and cockroaches.
NYCHA is trying to fix its lead - paint debacle with the same faulty computer software that helped create the problem in the first place, a lawyer for a tenants organization claimed...
Klein announced the proposal as part of a report the IDC released comparing lead - paint problems at NYCHA to the crisis with Flint, Mich.'s water supply.
«Six hundred million doesn't fix NYCHA, but hopefully it takes care of some of the most endemic bad problems that exist, like heat and hot water, like lead paint, like mold, like vermin,» he said.
The steps were taken to address recent problems plaguing the public housing system, including a lead paint scandal and problems with boilers and heating systems that left 300,000 people without heat and hot water during the winter.
Schumer's comments add to the growing call for action in Buffalo, where elevated lead levels have been a problem for years because of the presence of lead paint in its old housing stock.
That's a fraction of the 85,000 homes in Buffalo at risk for lead paint hazards, 12,000 of which have documented lead problems where children under the age of six live.
Sixto Martinez (pictured), 51, shows the lead paint and peeling problems in his bathroom in the Melrose Houses in the South Bronx.
The Common Council passed legislation Tuesday to address chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.
The bold particulars — $ 4 million in personal gain, a shakedown to turn cancer patients into fee - generating plaintiffs — unfurled over a three week trial as prosecutors led by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara painted Silver as a dry, inscrutable, greedy embodiment of Albany's problems.
The problem stems mainly from lead - based paint, according to Oneida County Health Department director Phyllis Ellis.
Brown's new initiatives for lead in drinking water testing come one day after the Buffalo Common Council passed legislation aimed at addressing chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following two years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.
NYCHA has recently been plagued by a lead paint scandal, as well as problems with heating systems and boilers that left public housing residents without heat or hot water on some of the coldest days of the winter.
State Sen. James Sanders (D - Jamaica) mentioned problems with lead paint, as well as mold and heating outages, in NYCHA developments in his district, which includes South Jamaica, Ozone Park and parts of Far Rockaway.
While the problems in NYCHA are centered on lead paint, Pruitt has primarily tackled the issue of eliminating lead poisoning from water.
But the monitor's primary task would be to expedite repairs to problems like broken boilers, mold and lead paint, which pose a threat to public health.
If problems had been building for years, it was the issue of lead paint that caused the dam to burst last year.
«As the Globe reported earlier today, the report «paints a vivid picture of what actually happened in the Hauser lab and suggests it was not mere negligence that led to the problems,»» Couzin - Frankel wrote.
Too often these authors will take their own problems and try to make it an issue of «Us vs. Them» as if they speak for all authors... this in turn leads to people painting the entirety of the indie crowd in the same negative light.
I read this with great interest but there is one problem that is not being addressed here: buying art online can lead to some huge disappointments — Almost any painting / drawing can be made to look much better posted on facebook than when you see it «in person», plus (many) online artists can puff up who they are and their backgrouns — which entitles them to inflate their prices.
McNeil speaks of why he became interested in art; his early influences; becoming interested in modern art after attending lectures by Vaclav Vytlacil; meeting Arshile Gorky; the leading figures in modern art during the 1930s; his interest in Cézanne; studying with Jan Matulka and Hans Hofmann; his experiences with the WPA; the modern artists within the WPA; the American Abstract Artists (A.A.A.); a group of painters oriented to Paris called The Ten; how there was an anti-surrealism attitude, and a surrealist would not have been permitted in A.A.A; what the A.A.A. constituted as abstract art; a grouping within the A.A.A. called the Concretionists; his memories of Léger; how he assesses the period of the 1930s; the importance of Cubism; what he thinks caused the decline of A.A.A.; how he assesses the period of the 1940s; his stance on form and the plastic values in art; his thoughts on various artists; the importance of The Club; the antipathy to the School of Paris after the war; how Impressionism was considered in the 40s and 50s; slides of his paintings from 1937 to 1962, and shows how he developed as an artist; the problems of abstract expressionism; organic and geometric form; the schisms in different art groups due to politics; his teaching techniques; why he feels modern painting declined after 1912; the quality of A.A.A. works; stretching his canvases, and the sizes he uses; his recent works, and his approaches to painting.
(At one point, the industry argued, based on its research, that the problem was not that the consumption of lead paint made children stupid but that stupid children ate paint.)
If Apple wanted to tweak the design a bit — such as the improper way he holds the phone — or to do some diligence to make sure it doesn't have any problems such as lead paint, I'll bet MIC would have gladly co-operated.
Lead paint poses a serious problem to everyone and, in particular, young children living in communities where numerous older buildings still exist.
The Housing Authority had a 1992 letter from the plaintiff's doctor stating that she had elevated levels of lead in her blood, but it was not enough to put the Housing Authority on notice that there was a problem with lead paint in its residential housing.
Lead paint exposure can cause irreversible brain damage as well as many other health problems, and behavioral or learning problems.
Children can suffer severe learning disabilities and other problems from lead - based paint.
Lead paint, in both small and large amounts can cause serious and long lasting health problems, even leading to death in some cases.
While less of a problem for adults, lead paint is of course quite dangerous to children.
Other issues that can lead to breach of habitability claim include things like mold; lead paint; electrical wiring problems; rats; sewage leaks; and failing heating units or air conditioners.
The disclosures that licensees are most frequently accused of omitting are structural problems and environmental problems, including lead - based paint hazards.
Lead - based paint exposure has been linked to a host of physical and mental health problems.
Lead - based paint can create a health problem for children who ingest flaked paint chips or dust.
For smaller properties, the third most frequent problem for owners was lead - based paint disclosure requirements.
I mess these projects up all the time, Chris rolls his eyes and wonders why he married such a paint - covered mess, my dad tells me that «that was a terrible solution to that problem» and «stop leading your readers down a bad path», I cry myself to sleep with my face stuck to my laptop keyboard in a pool of drool after going blind scrolling Pinterest... and then I do it all over again because I love it.
Moisture and water trapped inside walls can lead to additional problems, such as paint failure, wood rot, mold growth, musty smell, swollen drywall and damage that would not have happened with yearly maintenance.