STATES SUING LEAD PAINT MAKERS.

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Rhode Island sued eight paint manufacturers and a lead industry trade group last fall in an effort to make them pay for treating children poisoned by lead paint and removing lead paint from buildings. At least a dozen other states, counties and cities are considering similar suits, according to The New York Times. The federal government banned lead paint 20 years ago because of health concerns, but studies this decade have found that two-thirds of the nation's housing still contains lead paint and nearly a million children under 6 have elevated lead...