ANNAPOLIS, MD – First Lady Katie O’Malley will join the Maryland Department of the Environment, Baltimore City Health officials, and representatives from the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release the annual lead poisoning report. More Maryland children were tested last year for lead poisoning and fewer were poisoned by lead than in any year since figures have been collected, the report shows.
According to MDE’s annual statewide Childhood Lead Registry, the percentage of tested children with elevated blood levels dropped to one half of one percent statewide. The statistics show a decrease of nearly 98 percent in the percentage of children reported to have blood poisoning since 1993, the year before Maryland’s Reduction of Lead Risk in Housing Law went into effect.
The full report will be released at the event tomorrow, which will be held at the home of Deirdre Young Randall, who resides in a 1936 row home in Baltimore City. The home is part of the Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning’s Green and Healthy Housing initiative and has received a full energy audit and weatherization. Through the LEAP program the home received 11 new windows and paint stabilization throughout the house. The Coalition’s contractors are all EPA-certified.
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Speaking of lead all you gunowners better listen up--the EPA is set to vote on November 1, 2010 to outlaw LEAD AMMUNITION. This is an end run around the 2nd Amendment to destroy gun ownership. There is also a movement to severely restrict recreational fishing. This administration has been quietly and methodically destroying our freedoms to defend ourselves and feed ourselves. Please go to the EPA website to voice your concerns. WE MUST FIGHT TO KEEP OUR FREEDOM!!
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