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Earlier this year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had lowered recommended screening levels and strengthening guidance for investigating and cleaning up lead-contaminated soil in residential areas. As a result of the lower screening levels, EPA also shared that it expects to investigate more residential properties for potential cleanup under the Superfund law and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act., , , , EPA changed the screening level for lead in soil at.
ScienceNews published an article last year about the spread of three types of fungi that can cause serious lung diseases. One of these was Histoplasma which causes histoplasmosis, an infection once mainly found in the Midwest, but in more recent times infections have been recorded in at least 47 states., , , , Histoplasma capsulatum lives in the environment, particularly in soil or other materials that contain large amounts of bird droppings or bat guano. The Centers for Disease Control.
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