On Nov. 15, 1999, Sen. Susan Collins called to order a special Senate committee meeting in Lewiston City Hall.
The Senate Subcommittee on Public Health had traveled to Maine, Collins said, to examine “the serious impact” of lead poisoning on children.
At the time, childhood lead poisoning was on its way to becoming an old and forgotten problem in the nation’s mind. It had been little more than 20 years since ...
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