Consumer Reports has no financial relationship with advertisers on this site. Up to 86 percent of houses built before 1978 in the U.S. have at least some lead paint, according to the Environmental ...

It's important to take just a few simple precautions to keep the bed bugs, and lead away. Here's how to test for lead in your vintage items. medical toxicologist and co-medical director of the ...

Thousands of families in Louisville are intimately familiar with the devastating reality of childhood lead exposure, but thousands more may be completely unaware that a dangerous neurotoxin is ...

When you're in your house, you expect to be safe. If your home was built before 1980, though, it's possible that you have dangerous materials in place that were used as part of home construction ...

More than one-third of home test kits sent in for testing by residents to the city’s environmental agency over the past decade had some level of lead — results that reflect many New Yorkers’ continued ...

Federal and state authorities are investigating a painting project at a downtown parking garage across from the Providence Performing Arts Center Rob Hill, Rhode Island Painters and Allied Trades ...

Testing for lead and asbestos is important as they are dangerous chemicals that can lurk in the paint, insulation, and drywall of homes built in the early 1900s.