{"id":29014,"date":"2025-12-19T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=29014"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:28:02","slug":"sen-ossoff-demanding-trump-admin-reverse-cancellation-of-kids-lead-exposure-research-project","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-demanding-trump-admin-reverse-cancellation-of-kids-lead-exposure-research-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Demanding Trump Admin. Reverse Cancellation of Kids’ Lead Exposure Research Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Atlanta, Ga. <\/strong>\u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressing for answers after the Trump Administration canceled a research project to help protect children from lead exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reinstate a grant made to Emory University through the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant program to research children\u2019s exposure to lead, heavy metals, and other contaminants in West Atlanta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This research was prompted after the discovery of dangerously high levels of lead<\/a> in some West Atlanta yards in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis research was critical, as childhood exposure to heavy metals like lead can cause neurocognitive disorders, behavioral disorders, respiratory problems, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases, according to the National Institute of Health. However, the Agency terminated this critical research in May \u2013 midway through Emory\u2019s work,\u201d Sen. Ossoff wrote.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cChildren are precious, and their safety and well-being must be one of our highest concerns. The EPA\u2019s decision to terminate this research needlessly puts at risk the health and safety of children and families in West Atlanta,\u201d Sen. Ossoff continued<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect Georgians from contamination in water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Sen. Ossoff cosponsored<\/a> the bipartisan Rural Water System Disaster Preparedness and Assistance Act<\/em> to improve water infrastructure systems across rural Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In August, Sen. Ossoff introduced and passed an amendment<\/a> through an Appropriations Committee markup to increase funding by nearly 50% for the Reducing Lead in Drinking Water grant program in the Senate\u2019s Interior appropriations bill. This program helps reduce lead in drinking water by giving Federal resources to States and local communities for the removal of lead pipes and water treatment infrastructure improvements in schools and child-care facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Sen. Ossoff delivered<\/a> over $36 million through the bipartisan infrastructure law for lead pipe replacement projects across Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022, Sen. Ossoff passed into law<\/a> the Chattahoochee River Act<\/em>, a first-of-its-kind law that authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to work on water projects up and down the Chattahoochee River throughout the state of Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In November 2021, President Biden signed<\/a> Sen. Ossoff\u2019s provision to repair and remove lead water pipes from public schools into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here<\/a> to read Sen. Ossoff\u2019s inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atlanta, Ga. \u2014 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressing for answers after the Trump Administration canceled a research project to help protect children from lead exposure. Sen. Ossoff is urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reinstate a grant made to Emory University through the Science to Achieve Results (STAR) grant program to research children\u2019s exposure to lead, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29014","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29015,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/29014\/revisions\/29015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}