Sentences with phrase «with lead paint»

For instance, buildings built before 1978 were often painted with lead paint.

«Lead paint was so widely used, there are still hundreds of thousands of homes and apartments with lead paint,» he says.

If you have a house built before 1978, see our report on ways to prevent child lead poisoning for tips on prep work and resources to help deal with lead paint.

Many top toddler toys are covered with lead paint, an industrial material that increases the durability of toys and resistance to moisture.

If you are concerned, I suggest testing with a lead paint test kit like this one.

They may have even been made with lead paint a long time ago!

Unlike on projects involving asbestos, contractors are not required to notify the state when they are working with lead paint, she said.

The credit would be worth up to $ 3,000 of the costs related to getting rid of lead pipes and paint and replacing surfaces, windows or fixtures contaminated with the lead paint.

Young children are also exposed through routine hand - to - mouth activity after they have touched surfaces which were laden with lead paint dust, or by eating paint chips.

I just have to ask: are you ever concerned with older painted wood being painted with lead paint?

If I believed regulators could vet these things properly, I'd support banning leveraged funds and some other exotic ETFs outright for individual investors, just as we ban tainted pharmaceuticals or toys with lead paint from China.

In buildings with lead paint, workers will have to wear special outfits with air filters, goggles and hoods, protect work sites with heavy plastic, clean work areas thoroughly with special vacuums and post warning signs.

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.

Property owners, particularly in the City of Buffalo where the vast majority of homes with lead paint are found, need to be responsible for the homes they are renting.

If that is really the justification — the enoromous costs incurred by families and a society when a child is poisoned — than our efforts are better spent addressing the much more significant cause of childhood lead poisoning — older housing and buildings coated with lead paint.

Mayor Bill De Blasio's spokeswoman Karen Hinton told reporters at the St. Patrick's Day Parade that other cities have «much bigger issues with lead paint,» citing Philadelphia as a bigger offender, when asked about the issues facing NYCHA.

The more common kinds of exposure are from dust in houses with lead paint, from water contaminated with lead (by passing through old pipes, which is what happened in Flint), or from toys, jewelry, tableware, or home remedies that may be contaminated with lead.

Also beware peeling paint, and old cribs with lead paint.)

«When surfaces with lead paint are heated or sanded during remodeling, lead is released into the air,» Sundberg explained.

Even children who don't chew on paint chips can get lead into their system if there's lead - based paint in or around their home or another building they spend time in: Doors and window frames covered with lead paint release tiny particles of lead dust into the air every time they're opened or closed.

The governor also targeted rival Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying: «It's not okay to have the greatest wealth, and have people in public housing with no heat and living with lead paint.

She was also pressed on her refusal to go public with the lead paint news once she became aware of the lapses.

Among other things, the lawsuit accuses the agency of intentionally causing dangerous conditions by painting the structure with lead paint, then not maintaining it.

«The appalling conditions at NYCHA have left more than 400,000 residents suffering with lead paint, mold and no heat or hot water for months,» a Cuomo spokesperson said.

The head of the NYC Council's Public Housing Committee, Bronx Councilman Richie Torres, will propose a new law requiring NYCHA to clean up all apartments with lead paint instead of waiting for tenants to move out.

The city has said that the number of children with lead paint poisoning has declined in New York over the years.

Many of her pupils lived in public housing, which she described as rat - infested and riddled with lead paint that made the children sick.

Place older ornaments and decorations that might be painted with lead paint out of the reach of small children and pets.

After World War II, no school of sculpture emerged either in New York or Paris to compare with the leading painting style of Abstract Expressionism, although there was considerable originality, mainly in the use of new materials and a growing mood of conceptualism.

I can remember fighting with the lead paint industry over all the poisoning that they were doing of children in Rhode Island with the poisonous paint that they sold into Rhode Island.

There is only one Federal disclosure law and that has to do with lead paint.

Regulations prohibiting the import of childrens» toys with lead paint on them are burdensome to the people who would import those toys, make their profit, and then disappear.

Britain's best - selling modern homes magazine, Livingetc have developed — along with leading paint retailer B&Q and specialist manufacturer Craig & Rose — a stylish new paint range.

«It's a public emergency,» Cuomo said, noting problems with lead paint, mold and broken heating systems.

Gillibrand, D - N.Y., said the aid is important for Syracuse's children, who are most at risk of lead poisoning in older homes with lead paint.

Sources of lead include toys made in China and coated with lead paint, and crawling around on the floor where shoes drag in lead pollution from outside.

Homes constructed before the 1980's are most likely painted with lead paint.

Bronx Councilman Rafael Salamanca, whose district includes several NYCHA developments, questioned whether the authority is dangerously underplaying the potential for harm to children living in apartments with lead paint.

Are there the same issues with lead paint?

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, thankfully now under new leadership, is on the ball, fining nine companies for selling toys with lead paint.

Old houses were built with lead paint and lead...

there are other significant areas of the county with pre-1978 housing that have old, energy inefficient single pane windows covered with lead paint..»

Being built in 1955 could mean that at one time it was painted with lead paint and then scraped off... and then the soil would be contaminated.

Old houses were built with lead paint and lead pipes and nearly 60 % of Buffalo homes were built before 1940.

«Well, if there are children who are in homes with lead paint and the lead is friable or lead is -LSB-...]

The Legislature believes that the county should be involved in combatting the heroin epidemic and aiding families dealing with lead paint.

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.