The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children is the focal point for coordinating federal government efforts to explore, understand, and act together to improve children’s environmental health and safety.
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Featured Activities
Key activities, programs, and initiatives of the Task Force, its Subcommittees, and member federal departments and agencies that address children's environmental health risks and safety risks.
Healthy Learning Environments in Schools
On October 14, 2026, the President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children hosted a webinar on environmental hazards in schools. The webinar highlighted priority school exposures—from lead and PCBs to pesticides, mold, outdoor air pollution, indoor air quality, and natural disasters—and shared federal tools and guidance on how to implement best practices that reduce exposure.
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Featured Resources
Resources by the Task Force or its Subcommittees or by federal departments, agencies, or other interagency efforts that are relevant to addressing children's environmental health risks and safety risks.
Federal Task Force on Children’s Health Releases Lead Resource Guide
The President’s Task Force on Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks to Children (Task Force) is publishing an interim Federal Lead Resource Guide (The Guide). The Guide is a collection of select Federal lead-related resources, programs and assistance opportunities for use by the public.
Focus Areas
Asthma
The Task Force works to address preventable environmental factors that lead to differences in the burden of asthma for poor and minority children relative to their peers.
Chemical Exposures
The Task Force promotes understanding and predicting disease and disabilities in children across their life stages that result from exposure to chemicals and metals, including pesticides, manufacturing ingredients, lead, and others, is a focus of the Task Force.
Children in Emergencies and Disasters
The Task Force seeks to empower federal partners to collectively address gaps in health research and protection of children that arises from their exposure to public health emergencies and disasters.
Lead Exposures
The Task Force coordinates interagency efforts to better understand and prevent disease and disabilities in children from lead, including development of a new federal lead strategy.