BALTIMORE -- Maryland's Department of the Environment (MDE) is suing a Baltimore-based company for allegedly using radioactive materials without a license and altering test samples during lead paint ...

New York City’s Department of Education consistently failed to follow requirements for annual lead-paint inspections in schools over the last five years, records show. Hundreds of city reports show ...

A legislative audit released Thursday said deficiencies in Maryland’s inspection program for lead paint in rental homes made it easier for a string of fraudulent inspections to go undetected for ...

Students in seven school buildings across the city returned to their usual classrooms this week after emergency work was done to remediate deteriorated lead-based paint, according to New York City's ...

More than 1,400 lead paint inspections, including hundreds in Baltimore, have been invalidated after Maryland officials charged an inspector with submitting false certifications. Three children have ...

In a recent opinion handed down by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Cooper v. SGYS St. Ives, a group of tenants in Philadelphia challenged whether their landlord made sufficient lead-based paint ...

Around 35% of U.S. homes contain lead paint, so in which cities is the risk of lead paint exposure — and the need for a lead paint inspection — greatest? We compared the 500 biggest U.S. cities based ...

The city is planning to change the process for inspecting apartments for lead paint in Bronx and the city. Under the Department of Homeless Services' plan, buildings with open violations will not be ...

He grew up in Baltimore, and for years, Kshawn Burrell never realized the lead paint surrounding him in his apartment was poisoning him. “Well, I had the experience when I was like 15,” said Burrell, ...