{"id":202531,"date":"2015-11-23T00:53:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=202531"},"modified":"2015-11-23T00:53:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T00:53:12","slug":"lax-regulatory-enforcement-leaves-thousands-risk-lead-poisoning-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/lax-regulatory-enforcement-leaves-thousands-risk-lead-poisoning-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Lax Regulatory Enforcement Leaves Thousands at Risk of Lead Poisoning in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"max-width: 640px; display: inherit;\"><span style=\"max-width: 640px; text-align: left; margin-top: 3px; display: block;\">As much as 33,600 cubic yards of contaminated soil is being removed from a cleanup site at Jordan Downs in Watts, Los Angeles. Community advocates say the cleanup doesn&#8217;t meet health and safety standards.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s regulatory agencies have repeatedly failed in their testing, enforcement and cleanup of various lead-contaminated sites in the state, an investigation by Truthout has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation comprised three separate sites in and around Los Angeles: the Quemetco lead-acid battery recycling facility in the city of Industry, the Jordan Downs housing project in Watts (a toxic cleanup site), and a former police department firing range in Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern of lax regulatory enforcement at contaminated sites comes at a time when scientists recognize that lead &#8211; one of the World Health Organization&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/mediacentre\/factsheets\/fs379\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">10 chemicals of major public health concern<\/a> &#8211; has no safe levels, especially for fetuses and children.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/33749-lax-regulatory-enforcement-leaves-thousands-at-risk-of-lead-poisoning-in-california\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as 33,600 cubic yards of contaminated soil is being removed from a cleanup site at Jordan Downs in Watts, Los Angeles. Community advocates say the cleanup doesn&#8217;t meet health and safety standards.\u00a0 California&#8217;s regulatory agencies have repeatedly failed in their testing, enforcement and cleanup of various lead-contaminated sites in the state, an investigation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202531","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}