CORRECTIONS.

• Position: Brief Article - Correction Notice

LEAD-SUCKING SUNFLOWERS NOT INCINERATED

An On First Reading article in the July 2001 issue of State Legislatures about a Northwestern University study that is using sunflowers, goldenrod, fescue and corn to remove lead from residential soil had an error.

The piece incorrectly stated that the plants were incinerated after they pulled lead and toxics out of the soil. In fact, the plants in the study are composted.

When research in this U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded study is completed some time this fall, and if the plants do absorb significant amounts of lead...