The answer is simple: Our policies should be designed to proactively get the lead out.
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The Get the Lead Out of Schools Act is a common sense fix to protect our kids.
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Last week, Environment America and U.S. PIRG released their national "Get The Lead Out" report, which grades states' on their lead prevention policies.
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"We're still determined to get the lead out of Flint," she told reporters in a Flint news conference with the governor and EPA officials.
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But if she hadn't been there, it's hard to imagine the house would have been able to get the lead out of its water.
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A summer research program, "Get the Lead Out," will send students into homes to measure lead in paint, dust, soil and water and inform families about risks.
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" Backed by environmental groups, in 2009 the National Park Service announced a "Get–the-Lead-Out!" initiative to outlaw the use of lead in firearms and fishing tackle "by December 31, 2010 or sooner.
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As worrisome as was the way in which the Obama administration used various tools of the administrative state "to get the lead out," the push failed, in the face of overwhelming pushback from the firearms-owning public.
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As clearly noted in an editorial by American Water Works Association CEO David LaFrance, the cause of the lead poisoning in Flint was the lead service lines ("Together We Can Get the Lead Out," March 85033, 2016 at awwa.org).
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Flint is not served by private wells, but its battle to get the lead out of the water has triggered alarms in other communities – including those served by private wells, which can draw in corrosive water that leaches lead, copper and other heavy metals from well components, water pipes and plumbing fixtures.
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Of course, convincing those who profit from lead products to get the lead out has never been easy going in the U.S. RELATED STORIES FROM THE HILL: "Obama's parting shot against ammunition industry takes effect" The gasoline industry fought off regulation for decades by suggesting that, despite all the research to the contrary, lead was not a health risk.
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Efforts to ban lead in fishing tackle Retrieved 8 April 2011. MPCA Home > Sustainability > Reduce Reuse Recycle > Nontoxic Tackle: Let's get the lead out! Strigul, Nikolay, Agamemnon Koutsospyros, Per Arienti, Christos Christodoulatos, Dimitris Dermatas, and Washington Braida. 2005. Effects of tungsten on environmental systems.
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Daffy is a guard at a scrap pile, encouraging Americans to "Get the tin out", "Get the iron out" and especially "Get the lead out". Singing We're in to Win, Daffy goes over the various things Americans can send to help with the war effort. However, Adolf Hitler who reads about Daffy's scrap pile helping to beat Benito Mussolini, isn't very happy about this and responds to this by giving his men the following order: "Destroy that scrap pile!" With the word out, a Nazi submarine fires a torpedo to the scrap pile — which has a billy goat inside, and the goat immediately starts eating everything in sight.
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Later, Masters' research on biology and human behavior led to new epidemiological evidence regarding the behavioral impacts of neurotoxins, first on the consequences of lead poisoning (Masters, Hone and Doshi 1998), and then on the links between a common method of water fluoridation to elevated blood lead and a higher prevalence of violent crime, substance abuse and learning disabilities (Masters and Coplan 1999, Masters et al. 2000). Masters' work has pioneered the application of natural science discoveries to the social sciences and government policy. He was a founding member and serves on the Executive Council of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences, and leads an ongoing consultancy on biology and politics for the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration with anthropologist Lionel Tiger and neuroscientist Michael T. McGuire. He served on the 2006-07 "Get the Lead out of Vermont" task force, and is frequently consulted by other government agencies or activists concerned with the behavioral consequences of environmental toxins.
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