Short messages from Kip Hansen – October 25, 2024 – 650 words/3 min
Unsafe on every level! If the current government's Environmental Protection Agency [ EPA ] If dust is found in the ambient air in an apartment building, property owners would have to carry out an extremely expensive renovation.
“Wait, that’s crazy!” you might say. But hey, come on, it's the EPA and they're “still crazy after all these years.” (h/t Paul Simon)
Don't believe me, here it is in the NY Times:
“The Biden administration announced Thursday that it is tightening requirements for homes and child care facilities to remove lead-based paint dust, a move that could better protect more than 300,000 children a year from the toxic metal.”
Under the new rules, any detectable amount of lead dust in the building would be considered a “lead hazard” and property owners would have to pay for cleanup. Property and business owners who may be affected expressed concerns about potential cleanup costs.”
No, I didn't cheat…says the EPA “any detectable lead dust content in the building”.
So how much lead – in what concentration – is present in the surrounding atmosphere?
Of course there are big differences, but when it comes to air pollution, the “National Trends in Lead Concentrations in 2010 – 2023” shows a value of just over 0.025 ug/m3 for the USA. This is a demonstrable level. The air measurement includes any fine dust particles in the air. In Europe, the lead content in soil is measured in nanograms/m3 and is 25-35 ng/m3, which is the same value. The average has hardly changed in the last decade.
This means that in both the US and Europe, ambient air has a detectable lead level of approximately 0.025 ug/m3. The measurements of the ambient air concentration include all particles (i.e. “dust” – PM2.5/PM10) in this air volume.
According to an MIT press release, “Testing for lead in water requires expensive, cumbersome equipment and typically takes days to obtain results.” Or, simple test strips are used that simply provide a yes or no answer about its presence of lead, but do not provide information about its concentration. Current EPA regulations require drinking water to contain no more than 15 parts per billion of lead, a concentration so low that it is difficult to detect.”
The new testing system being developed, as discussed in this press release, is said to be capable of detecting lead concentrations “as low as 1 part per billion.”
Today, no one wants their children or themselves exposed to lead in drinking water, in the paint on children's beds or toys, or in the paint dust in their older homes.
But “no detectable level” isn’t a standard – it’s an activist’s pipe dream.
The air around you likely contains detectable amounts of lead. A recent EPA document shows that airborne dust levels, averaged across all monitoring sites, range from 0.015 to 0.045 µg/m3.
If the water in your home likely has detectable levels of lead, and the dust in the air outside your home has detectable levels of lead, how is it possible to reduce the lead levels in your home to “no detectable levels”?
That's not it.
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Author's comment:
A demonstrably impossible goal is not a goal at all. It's nonsensical. No amount of cleaning or renovation can possibly reduce lead levels in a home below the levels found in tap water and the ambient air and therefore in the home. Houses are not clean rooms and cannot be converted into one.
It's possible that the current crop of EPA administrators, NIH and UN-WHO apparatchiks have simply lost their minds. Or perhaps they have secret knowledge from another planet that makes the impossible possible and are hiding it in Area 51?
Things are getting stranger and stranger.
Thanks for reading.
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