{"id":129130,"date":"2026-04-24T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/trump-admin-steps-up-next-phase-of-effort-to-protect-childrens-health-129130"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:00:14","slug":"trump-admin-steps-up-next-phase-of-effort-to-protect-childrens-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/trump-admin-steps-up-next-phase-of-effort-to-protect-childrens-health-129130","title":{"rendered":"Trump admin steps up next phase of effort to protect children\u2019s health"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>FIRST ON FOX:<\/strong> The Trump administration is stepping up its response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/health\/healthy-living\/childrens-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">childhood lead exposure<\/a>, launching new EPA public-education tools while pressing states to use previously awarded lead-mitigation funds that had gone unused, Fox News Digital learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no safe level of lead exposure, and it&#8217;s well documented that children are more susceptible to the risks of lead. We&#8217;ve made a lot of progress over the decades in reducing childhood exposure to lead, but there&#8217;s still more work to do,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/epa-chief-zeldin-announces-overhauls-bring-agency-back-reagan-level-staffing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)<\/a> Deputy Administrator\u00a0David Fotouhi told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The EPA is revamping its website and launching a new story map tool aimed at making critical information on the risks of lead exposure easier for the public to access. The move comes as the agency shifts funding toward higher-impact efforts and steps up pressure on states to address contamination risks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rfk-jr-defends-trump-move-protect-pesticide-he-tied-chronic-disease-epidemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>RFK JR DEFENDS TRUMP MOVE TO PROTECT PESTICIDE HE TIED TO \u2018CHRONIC DISEASE EPIDEMIC\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lead can be commonly found in paint, household dust, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/environment\/water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drinking water<\/a>, air, and soil. The new tools will provide information to the public on current regulations for prevention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re also enforcing our rules when it comes to the lead renovation and painting rule. This comes up when you&#8217;ve got older homes, 1978 and older. Those are the ones that are more likely to have lead in the home, in the paint,&#8221; said Fotouhi. &#8220;When those homes are being renovated, it&#8217;s critical that folks are following our standards for ensuring the safety of any children that are occupying that home during that renovation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/obama-era-greenhouse-gas-rules-gone-epas-zeldin-signs-single-largest-deregulatory-action-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OBAMA-ERA GREENHOUSE GAS RULES GONE AS EPA\u2019S ZELDIN SIGNS \u2018SINGLE LARGEST DEREGULATORY ACTION\u2019 IN HISTORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agency announced $3 billion in new funding for states to reduce lead in drinking water while also reallocating $1.1 billion in unused funding. Fotouhi explained to Fox News Digital that previous federal dollars to protect against lead poisoning and replace service lines sat unused in a handful of states.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve really focused on is making sure that states that received lead funding in the past are putting that money to good use,&#8221; said Fotouhi. &#8220;We encountered a number of situations where states had received funding from EPA to replace lead service lines but had not taken and spent those funds to do that work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are 4 million lead service lines carrying drinking water to homes, according to a 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/system\/files\/documents\/2025-11\/fact-sheet-2025-7th-dwinsa-update.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">EPA report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The EPA&#8217;s broader push to prevent lead poisoning also included $26 million for states and territories last year to address lead in drinking water at schools and child-care facilities, underscoring the administration\u2019s focus on children\u2019s exposure risks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/read-dr-oz-puts-all-50-governors-notice-over-billions-lost-medicaid-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><strong>READ: DR. OZ PUTS ALL 50 GOVERNORS ON NOTICE OVER BILLIONS LOST TO MEDICAID FRAUD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A committee of senior leaders was reestablished in 2025 across the agency\u2019s program offices and 10 regions as part of EPA\u2019s agency-wide effort to reduce children\u2019s exposure to lead.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is federal, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-team-digs-in-finds-millions-wasted-dollars-epa-hud-doge-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">precious federal grant funding<\/a>. Designed specifically to reduce human health risk from lead exposure, and the states need to be doing their job here and putting that funding to good use,&#8221; said Fotouhi.<\/p>\n<p>The administration has cast children\u2019s health as a cross-agency priority, with HHS helping drive that push through the White House\u2019s Make America Healthy Again initiative, which has focused in part on childhood chronic disease and environmental toxins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-admin-ramps-up-next-phase-push-protect-childrens-health\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-admin-ramps-up-next-phase-push-protect-childrens-health <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration is stepping up its response to childhood lead exposure, launching new EPA public-education tools while pressing states to use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-129130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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