April 03, 2008
| Health & Safety Newsletter April 03, 2008 |
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| This Week´s Featured News Stories |
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 | US sets new rules for lead-based paint To further protect children from exposure to lead-based paint, EPA is issuing new rules for contractors who renovate or repair housing, child-care facilities or schools built before 1978. Under the new rules, workers must follow lead-safe work practice standards to reduce potential exposure to dangerous levels of lead during renovation and repair activities. `While there has been a dramatic decrease over the last two decades in the number of children affected by lead-poisoning, EPA is continuing its efforts to take on this preventable disease,` said James Gulliford, EPA`s Assistant Administrator ... | ||||
 | Ecuador sues Colombia to stop anti-coca herbicide spray The government of Ecuador this week filed suit at the International Court of Justice against the government of Colombia, in an effort to stop or restrict aerial anti-coca spraying that has allegedly sickened people on the Ecuadorean side of the border and harmed livestock, farmland, and sensitive, ecologically diverse rainforest areas. The lawsuit follows seven years of persistent but unsuccessful diplomatic efforts on Ecuador`s part to convince its neighbor to the north to establish a 10 kilometer (six mile) no-spray zone along their shared border. Colombia is expected to argue that ... | ||||
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