Growing Momentum Toward the Global Elimination of Lead Paint: International Collaboration and National Engagement

[...]multinational paint companies have largely removed lead from their paint, and some smaller regional companies have done so as well. The partners publicized widely accepted research that connected lead, air pollution, and public health. Because much of the developed world had banned lead in gasoline, and because industry was already using available technology to make fuel for those markets, the existing technology could be applied in other countries. Global Lead Paint Elimination Report (IPEN), Oct. 2016, at 4. Since 2009, the Lead Paint Alliance has successfully contributed to international momentum and national efforts to phase out lead paint. [...]beginning in 2016, Alliance partners, including EPA and the World Health Organization worked with UNEP to develop a Model Law and Guidance for Regulating Lead Paint (Model Law).