2008 |
May 6 | Lead Paint Safety Requires "White Glove" Test - Remodeling contractors will have to pass a "white glove'' test under a new U.S. rule to prove their work doesn't stir up dangerous dust and debris from lead paint Click here to read the article on Bloomberg.com |
April 20 | Do I need a carbon monoxide alarm? Rebecca Morley, Executive Director of the National Center for Healthy Housing, helps answer those questions in this article from The Washington Post. Click here to read the article. Click here for the pdf version. |
April 8 | Concord, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services announces an agreement with the National Center for Healthy Housing, Inc. of Columbia, Maryland, to research, develop, and produce a plan for the NH Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program's (CLPPP) Healthy Homes Project. Click here to read the press release. |
March 31 | The Alliance for Healthy Homes and the National Center for Healthy Housing praise the new EPA regulation as a step in the right direction in saving children, workers and occupants from exposure to unhealthy levels of lead during renovation, repair, and painting activities in homes and child-occupied buildings built before 1978. Click here to read the press release. |
March 10 | Today, Senators Jack Reed (D-RI) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE) announced legislation creating the first Council on Healthy Housing, which would bring Federal, State, and local government representatives, as well as industry and non-profit representatives, to the table at least once a year. Click here to read the press release. |
Jan 14 | Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer in the United States.Here are a few things homeowners and home shoppers should know aboutthis colorless, odorless radioactive gas. Click here to read the article in the Washington Post |
2007 |
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Nov 9 | November 9, 2007 (Columbia, MD)–In an analysis of the recently released national green building guidelines, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) today praised new criteria designed to protect families from health hazards inside the home, but urged that the protections be mandatory and not optional. Click here to read the media release |
Nov 1 | Rebecca Morley, Executive Director of NCHH, is quoted in the article, Playing with danger: From toys to paint As millions of playthings are recalled, physicians are reminded that the risks of lead exposure continue for young patients. Click here to read the article in American Medical News |
October 31 | The National Center for Healthy Housing has been awarded grants totaling
$1,657,999 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Click here to read the article in the Baltimore Sun. [pdf] |
October 18 | NCHH makes policy recommendations for protecting children from lead poisoning. Click here to read the media release.[pdf]
Click here to read Dr. Jacob's full testimony.[pdf] |
October 9 | Using nontoxic cleaners and environmentally safe building products should help you breathe easier at home. Click here to read the article in the Indianapolis Star. |
Sept 14 | The National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) has been awarded two grants totaling $1,657,999 from The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Click here to read the media release.[pdf] |
Sept 4 | When discussion turns to lead paint exposure these days, the likely assumption is that tainted toys from China are the culprits. But an estimated 1.1 million U.S. children are exposed to lead paint found in older homes each year - a threat that is still greater than the potential for lead exposure from imported toys . . . Click here to read this editorial from the Las Vegas Sun.[pdf] |
August 29 | We estimate that each year, renovation, remodeling and painting work exposes 1.1 million children to the risk of lead poisoning," says Rebecca Morley, executive director of the National Center for Healthy Housing, an environmental group. Click here to read the article in the USAToday: It's banned, but not gone: Lead paint is still a danger. |
August 22 | The National Center for Healthy Housing has released two fact sheets to help parents make sense of the recent recalls of toys tainted with lead paint Click here to read the article in the Billings Gazette [pdf] |
August 21 | Recent recalls of toys manufactured in China have left parents alarmed and scrambling for information about the dangers of lead poisoning. Click here to read the article in The Greenville News [pdf] |
August 19 | Assessing the Danger of Lead Paint - Grabbing shiny new lead-painted toys away from kids is certainly sensible, but a large percentage of these children probably get much higher levels of the toxic metal from their older, peeling homes, according to federal and local records. Click here to read the article in The New Haven Register (print version) Click here to read the article in The New Haven Register (pdf version of original article) |
July 13 | Newly Published Research Confirms that Visual Assessments Alone Cannot Ensure that Lead Levels in Homes are Below Clearance Values Click here to read the media release |
July 9 | New Research Shows Early Childhood Exposure to Lead Can Result in Juvenile and Adult Criminal Behavior - Lead Exposure Explains International Property and Violent Crime Trends and Differences in USA City Murder Rates Click here to read the summary of the article [pdf file size 208kb]
Click here to read the abstract
Click here to read the media release National Health & Housing Groups Urge EPA to Issue Long Overdue Regulation to Protect Children from Lead Poisoning. Call on EPA to Ensure Safe Regulations. Click here to read the media release
Click here to go to read NCHH's comments on the proposed rule on clearance, dangerous work practices, carpets, and other matters. |
June 20 | New Survey Finds Homeowners Do Little to Protect Themselves Against Common Environmental Health Hazards Orkin, Inc., one of the nation's largest pest control companies, designed the survey with the assistance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation's premier public health agency, and the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH), a national scientific organization focused on protecting children from environmental hazards in their homes while preserving affordable housing. The survey polled respondents on health issues in and around the home and whether or not individuals were routinely taking steps to protect themselves. Click here for more information about the survey and to read the press release. |
June 20 | Simple steps can reduce asthma and its symptoms. National Center for Healthy Housing releases asthma study on World Asthma Day. Click here to read the press release in Acrobat (.pdf) format.
Click here to read the press release in Word (.doc) format
Click here for a description of the research project
Click here for simple steps to reduce asthma triggers in the home. |
June 16 | The National Center for Healthy Housing & the National Environmental Health Association Announce Nation's First Healthy Homes Specialist Credential Click here for information and to read the media release |
June 8 | Howard County, Maryland: One step closer to becoming one of the healthiest communities in the U.S. Click here to read media release
Click here to read the article in the Examiner: Clean, safe home is a healthy home. |
May 30 | Reliability of spot test kits for detecting lead household dust
The quick, inexpensive test kits used by homeowners nationwide to detect lead-laced dust are prone to high error rates, according to a University of Rochester study. Click here to read the media release |
2006 |
Sept. 25 | Household Levels of Mold Following Hurricane Katrina Surpass Some Agricultural Environments according to New Study by the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Click here to read the media release |
Sept. 21 | HUD NEWS: NCHH receives $150,120 Healthy Homes Grant - Additional $39 million available to clean up lead-based paint hazards in high-risk cities. Click here to read the media release |
June 28 | Free Guide for Cleanup of Homes After Flooding Available to Mid-Atlantic Residents. Guide Based on Post-Hurricane Mold Cleanup Demonstration Shows How to Safely Clean Flooded Homes Click here to read the media release |
June 12 | Mold Threatens Health Conditions in New Orleans - Orkin, Inc. Partners with National Center for Healthy Housing, Catholic Charities and ACORN to Battle Mold Click here to read the media release: |
May 10 | Rebecca Morley, Executive Director of NCHH, is quoted in a news announcement released by the City of Baltimore and the Maryland Health Department. Click here to read the media release |
April 24 | A grant to establish a Training Center for Native American Healthy Housing has been awarded to the East Center University Department of Environmental Health Science by the National Center for Healthy Housing. Click here to read the media release: |
April 20 | EPA Recognizes the 2006 Children's Environmental Health Excellence Award Recipients: National Center for Healthy Housing and Enterprise Community Partners Receive Award Click here to read the media release |
March 31 | Mold Cleanup Instructional Guide to Help Save Structures, Protect Health, and Speed Recovery Click here to read the media release: |
Feb 2 | EPA Proposes Regulating Home Renovations - Broad New Standards Aim to Prevent Lead Poisoning: All Pre-1978 Homes Affected [pdf] Click here to read the media release (Wall Street Journal): |
2005 |
October 5 | Alliance for Healthy Homes and National Center for Healthy Housing offer fact sheets for residents returning to hurricane impact zones |
Oct. 11 | Safety at Home. Article published in The Providence Journal |
Oct. 1 | Healthy Housing Tips - Article published in The Charlotte Observer. |
Oct. 1 | Healthy Housing Tips - Article published in Buffalo News |
2004 |
May 26 | Lead is gone at child care
S. Salina Street center is first of 13 homes that will be renovated under program. Edith Roberts brags she now has the prettiest house on South Salina Street and, more important, the safest. |
April 16 | Website Aims to Prevent Lead Poisoning
By clicking on www.LeadSafeHomes.Info, parents will be able to learn whether properties have been inspected for lead, meet Maryland lead law standards or have been abated--a move that could significantly reduce the number of city children poisoned each year by lead. |
April 16 | Baltimore First City To Launch New Web Site, Protects Families From Lead Poisoning In Homes
LeadSafeHomes.info is a valuable, consumer-friendly tool that we all can use in the battle to prevent and eradicate lead poisoning. |
March 30 | Scouring the Home For Lead Paint
The federal government banned the sale of lead-based paint more than a quarter-century ago, so why is it still turning up in so many homes, from multimillion-dollar mansions to $500-a-month rental units? |
Feb 21 | Rochester home-based childcare lead-safety program is up and running! Unique anti-lead plan starts--Childcare providers to live in houses while theirs are fixed.
Rochester, NY -- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last year awarded a $930,789 grant to the National Center for Healthy Housing to eliminate lead hazards in more than 25 home-based child care programs in Syracuse and Rochester. |
2003 |
Sept. 22 | Lead's toxic toll: Detroit's goal: End Poisonings
The city has hired a nationally known lead-fighting group, the National Center for Healthy Housing, to help write the plan by June. The Columbia, Md.-based group helped Rhode Island create a similar plan and will send representatives to this week's conference. |
Sept. 15 | Healthy Housing Tips. Article published in The Washington Post |
Sept. 15 | NCHH receives CDC grant for National Healthy Homes Training Center and Network
The Columbia-based National Center for Healthy Housing has been awarded a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop a national healthy homes training program. |
Feb. 9 | Lead paint foes tackle additional ills
Columbia-based group taking on breathing woes of low-income children Columbia-based housing organization that has worked to reduce lead-paint poisoning in children is expanding to focus on other health problems as it marks its first decade of work. |
Feb. 6 | NCHH receives HUD grant to create model lead-safe child care program
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $930,789 grant to the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) to eliminate lead hazards in more than 25 home-based child care programs in Syracuse and Rochester, New York. |
Feb. 1 | New study shows thorough cleaning may not address lead-paint hazards
Columbia, Maryland -- A one-time industrial cleaning to control lead-paint hazards in homes is ineffective, and does not reduce harmful lead dust that causes childhood lead poisoning, according to a study by the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) released in the February 2003 issue of Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene. NCHH's scientific study on one-time cleaning is part of an evaluation of HUD's Lead-based Paint Hazard Control Grant program. |
