ArticleGeoHealth2024
One in Four US Households Likely Exceed New Soil Lead Guidance Levels.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Lead soil contribution to dust loading in urban homes built before and after 1978, measured through a community academic partnership.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Urban Conflagrations: Structural Ash and Soil Metal(loid) Contamination after California's Eaton and Palisades Fires.Environmental science & technology letters · 2026Article
- Soil Lead Risks Associated With Urbanization Histories in Springfield MA and Hartford CT, USA.GeoHealth · 2026Article
- Tracing spatial mid-size Eastern U.S. cities road dust pollution: insights from source apportionment and health risk assessment.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2026Article
- Region- and season-specific exposure to lead in a common North American songbird.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2026Article
- Prevalence of lead poisoning and unique lead sources in Bhutan: Findings from a nationally representative survey 2024.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- What's in Your Soil? A Citywide Investigation of the Importance of Soil Lead for Predicting Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Chicago.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Lead source apportionment and climatic impacts in rural environmental justice mining communities.Environmental research · 2025Article
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Abstract
Lead exposure has blighted communities across the United States (and the globe), with much of the burden resting on lower income communities, and communities of color. On 17 January 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) lowered the recommended screening level of lead in residential soils from 400 to 200 parts per million. Our analysis of tens of thousands of citizen-science collected soil samples from cities and communities around the US indicates that nearly one quarter of households may contain soil lead that exceed the new screening level. Extrapolating across the nation, that equates to nearly 30 million households needing to mitigate potential soil lead hazards, at a potential total cost of 290 billion to $1.2 trillion. We do not think this type of mitigation is feasible at the massive scale required and we have instead focused on a more immediate, far cheaper strategy: capping current soils with clean soils and/or mulch. At a fraction of the cost and labor of disruptive conventional soil mitigation, it yields immediate and potentially life-changing benefits for those living in these environments.
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