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Lawmakers urged to require lead testing, filters in all schools after statewide data shows widespread positives
Summary
Several advocacy groups and medical experts pressed the Joint Committee to pass bills that would require testing and removal of lead from school taps, install certified filters or bottle-filling stations, and set a health-based threshold of 1 part per billion to trigger action.
Advocates, pediatric and public-health groups and state legislators urged the Joint Committee to pass bills requiring schools and child-care centers to test drinking and cooking taps, install certified lead-removing filters or filtered filling stations, and remediate sources of lead when results exceed a health-based standard.
Senator Joan Lovely, sponsor of Senate 631, framed the measure as a child-health priority and said Massachusetts lags peer states on mandatory protections. “Lead is a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in the body over time,” Lovely said. “This bill aims to remove lead from school drinking water in all schools and childcare centers in…
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