Block upon block of red brick rowhouses still line Kensington’s streets. Increasingly, new construction does too, and lots of it.
Students at three Pennsylvania schools had been told to stay home amid concerns over lead and asbestos contamination.
The governor says he’s planning to include the pitch in next week’s budget address, along with several other lead and asbestos-remediation plans.
“That paint is going to end up in the environment, it’s virtually unstoppable,” said Terrence Collins, a chemical sustainability expert at Carnegie Mellon University.
The fact that many schools either didn’t test or didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment left some parents uneasy.
By Ryan Briggs/WHYY and Avi Wolfman-Arent/Keystone Crossroads 
