http://ucsaction.org/campaign/1_24_07_lead_air_pollution/ is a better URL as the one in the article goes to Jenny Dougherty's account.

could you provide a reference for this:

"the EPA is considering removing lead entirely from the list of pollutants it controls under the Clean Air Act"

Mark

I highly reccomend you read the book "Crimes Against Nature"

It's completely shocking, and spells out what the Bush administration is doing to important agencies like the EPA.

I have personally been affected by lead poisoning. I am going through my second round of IV chelation therapy because the environment is so polluted that once I get rid of it, it comes back. I will have to be on IV chelation therapy the rest of my life. Therefore, I am very interested in this issue.

I will send a personal letter to the EPA Administrator and I will also write an article on this subject on our blog and track back to your article for more info and for the protest email.

Thanks for letting me know about this. Great job!

Inaccurate. The document that the site is referencing can be found here.

And it is in fact just a mention that the EPA is reviewing the regulations and scientific information about lead, as the law requires them to do. Anything regulated gets periodically reviewed.

The idea that they will stop regulating it is simply made up out of whole cloth. Nothing in that referenced document says anything of the sort.

Umm, sorry, what's the source on this? Some of the folks over at digg.com have found the the post stating that they're doing a review "to evaluate the policy implications of the key scientific and technical information contained in a related EPA document, Air Quality Criteria for Lead, required under sections 108 and 109 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) for use in the periodic review of the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) for lead. On or about December 15, 2006, the OAQPS also will make available for public review and comment the related draft technical support document, Lead Human Exposure and Health Risk Assessments and Ecological Risk Assessment for Selected Areas (Pilot Phase)."

(Good work diggers!)

Perhaps it is because the existing regulations have done their job and lead is not a priority issue in the environment.
The major producer of atmospheric lead was leaded gas and that has all but vanished now.
The resource available are now better spent on higher priority contaminants rather than on regulating and testing on lead in the air. Lead based paints are much more of an issue.
Resources are finite, everyone needs to prioritize budgets and lead has fallen down the list.
You should be applauding the fact that airborne lead has been reduced to level where it is not an issue.

I hope that the EPA does drop the regulation. Then, if the past is any indication, the states will be forced to step in (as many have been doing with other public health regulation that the federal government has been abandoning), and make even more strict regulations on air quality.

How about this: If they drop the lead regulation why not sue them for several million dollars?

They are endangering the public by doing so, and taking part in criminal negligence that lead is a deadly toxin and can (and will) poison the public.