By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. environmental regulator said Thursday soil sampling for lead in two Pennsylvania towns near ...
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON - The U.S. environmental regulator said Thursday soil sampling for lead in two Pennsylvania towns near telecommunications cables indicate"no threats to theCountering the culture war with education and empathy | SaltWire #TransRights #HalifaxProtestWASHINGTON - The U.S.
The EPA has established a national working group to consider next steps to ensure the public remains safe, which may include further analyses to better understand if the cables have released and continue to release lead. The EPA said the Pennsylvania results do show some soil samples have lead concentrations above an EPA screening level of 400 parts per million.
Earlier this month, Verizon said third-party lead soil tests it commissioned and tests by the state of New York in Wappingers Falls concluded the lead levels do not pose a public health risk. Verizon said its third-party tests were consistent with EPA test results in West Orange.
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