EPA Lead Law for New England
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Since April 2010, federal law will require that contractors be trained to protect children and pregnant women from dangerous levels of lead. Signed in March of this 2008, the EPA’s “Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting Program†is the most important new effort to combat childhood lead poisoning in the last decade says the EPA. [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The law will require contractors and maintenance professionals to be certified, and their employees trained. In addition, they must follow protective lead-safe work practice standards when renovation,...