Lead Contamination

The state adopted an emergency rule last month to lower the threshold for when public health agencies have to address elevated blood lead levels in children — and will consider making the change permanent.

Lead mitigation

Indiana is considering lowering its threshold for when public health agencies address elevated blood lead levels in children — based on a nearly…

A group of Indiana faith leaders has teamed up with IUPUI to provide free, anonymous lead testing kits in Indianapolis, Muncie and, eventually, statewide.…

A bill headed for Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk would require schools to test for lead in drinking water. But a Purdue University professor says the bill won’t…

A bill that would require schools to test for lead in drinking water is headed to Gov. Eric Holcomb’s desk. It passed unanimously in the state Senate on…

A bill that will help smaller utilities address lead in drinking water passed unanimously in the state House on Monday. Long-term exposure to lead can…

A bill that would require schools to test for lead in drinking water passed the state House on Thursday. The measure was originally aimed at Lake County…

Government officials first found high levels of lead and arsenic at an East Chicago lead smelting plant in 1985. Thirty years later, after countless soil…