Lead exposure

The package of bills focuses on lead in drinking water, paint and as an environmental toxin.

Childhood lead exposure rates continue to climb in Kent County – particularly in areas of Grand Rapids. Paul Haan of the Healthy Homes Coalition of West…

It’s been a year since Governor Rick Snyder acknowledged Flint faces a drinking water crisis due to lead contamination. The contamination occurred after…

About 50 more homes in Flint have had lead-tainted water lines replaced as part of Mayor Karen Weaver's FAST Start initiative.The Flint Journal reports…

Contractors will be out in Flint neighborhoods as part of the latest effort to replace old lead and galvanized steel water lines amid the city's crisis…

Flint is moving forward on an effort to replace old lead and galvanized steel water lines amid the city's crisis with lead-tainted water.A kickoff for the…

A Michigan board has approved the state attorney general's request for $3.4 million more to investigate Flint's water crisis, an amount that would more…

The University of Michigan has begun testing drinking water for levels of lead and copper in all of the Ann Arbor campus' buildings.The executive director…

Two west Michigan leaders are among members of a new state board tackling lead poisoning.Grand Rapids Mayor Rosalynn Bliss and Paul Haan, executive…

Nearly 4,800, or 3.4 percent, of Michigan children who were tested had elevated levels of lead in their blood in 2015, according to health officials.The…