More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up. by Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press Co-published with Flatwater Free Press

More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up. The EPA hasn’t reevaluated its cleanup guidelines for homes in a residential Superfund site in Omaha, Nebraska, in 17 years, despite research showing that even small amounts of lead can cause IQ loss in children and heart attacks in adults. https://www.propublica.org/article/lead-remediation-epa-standards-omaha-nebraska?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=river