The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee announced on Monday that the Committee would look into the government’s funding of research in an underprivileged, black neighborhoods to test whether sewage sludge might protect children from lead- poisoning in the soil.
According to the report, of the Associated Press, on Sunday that the blend of human and manufacturing wastes from sewage management plants was applied on the lawns of nine poor families in Baltimore and an unoccupied lot near an elementary school in East St. Louis, Ill., to find whether lead in the soil from chipped paint and car drains would join to it.
This research was sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency and it was done in 2001 and 2002.
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