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State education and health officials announced Wednesday that the state plans to recommend that all public schools and day care centers test their water for lead this summer. State officials also said the Oregon Health Authority will collect and make public the results of all tests to make it easy for the public too see whether lead is present, and at what levels, in schools and child care centers. (Hammond, 6/8)

Portland Public Schools' senior manager for environmental health and safety, Andy Fridley, resisted testing school water quality and spread false information about the safety of drinking water in schools, email records show. Fridley was the point person charged with protecting students and employees in Oregon's largest school district from environmental hazards for two years. (Hammond, 6/8)

High levels of lead have been found in water at an additional 11 Chicago elementary schools, with results from tests at scores of other buildings yet to come in, Chicago Public Schools said Wednesday. The district expanded lead testing to all of its 600-plus schools after a pilot effort begun in April found that multiple fountains at Tanner Elementary on the South Side spouted water that contained lead levels well above federal standards. (Perez Jr., 6/8)

State environmental regulators announced Wednesday that they will monitor air in Northeast Portland's Cully neighborhood after an analysis of U.S. Forest Service data indicated the area could have high levels of toxic metals in the air. The monitoring should establish if the public is at risk, state officials said. (Zarkhin, 8/8)