The program aims to break down barriers for Black, Brown and other communities of color, and lower-income communities who are more likely to be exposed to lead at home.

Kids with lead poisoning can have trouble learning, behavioral issues, and poor kidney function. Its especially harmful to children under the age of 6.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced it will put more than $55 million toward the state's revolving loan fund, which provides loans to communities for things like replacing water and sewer lines.

Residents in the USS Lead Superfund site in East Chicago are worried that flooding in May could have recontaminated their homes with arsenic and lead.

On Monday, the East Chicago city council voted 8-1 to allow the site of the former West Calumet Public Housing Complex to go from residential zoning to industrial.

Drinking water fountains and taps at public and private schools in Indiana will be required to be tested for lead contamination by 2023 under a new state law.

The bill would require all schools that havent tested for lead at least once since 2016 to do so within the next two years.

The measure would require all schools that havent tested for lead at least once since 2016 to do so within the next two years.

In 2017, the state passed a law to let larger, investor-owned utilities replace those pipes and recover the costs. This bill would let smaller, municipally-owned utilities do the same.

The measure was originally aimed at Lake County schools, but it was recently amended to include all Indiana schools.