EPA has cleaned the interiors of 396 homes in the USS Lead Superfund site since 2016 as part of their "aggressive" cleanup timeline, the agency has said. EPA Region 5 staff has argued the agency is only cleaning home interiors found to have contaminated soil because of the unlikelihood families are tracking lead-contaminated dirt into their home.

Northwestern, University of Chicago, Shriver, and Health Justice, however, see it differently. 

“If that’s true, they should do the work and figure it out. This community has suffered incredible accumulative exposure. Just do the testing," Mark Templeton, director of the University of Chicago Law School's Abrams Environmental Law Clinic, said Friday. 

Rather than using existing federal standards as a guide, EPA also created its own site-specific dust standard and assessment protocol in East Chicago, Templeton, Chizewer and others argue.

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