Housing for Yellowstone National Park employees and their families is contaminated with lead paint, according to a whistleblower disclosure filed with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel on April 27. The filing marks the second time in the past year a park employee has brought forth concerns about the safety of lead in employee housing; this time, information included with the disclosure paints a more sweeping picture of potential lead exposure.
“Thousands of Yellowstone employees and their families have been and/or are currently being exposed to harmful levels of lead through the paint in their housing,” the disclosure states. “Many remain exposed today without a form of abatement. There are current and former residents that have not been warned of this risk.”
The filing by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, a nonprofit that provides free legal services for government employees, is on behalf of an unnamed current federal employee.
The recent whistleblower disclosure provides new details about Yellowstone’s monitoring of lead and, allegedly, a lack of action to correct alarming finds. According to PEER, Yellowstone is the “target of an ongoing investigation by EPA on the issue.”
The filing includes a previously unreported 2025 review of lead hazard in the park, which found that 79% of park housing did not fully comply with federal guidelines for lead management in family housing. The 2025 lead report concluded, “Evaluating and mitigating exposure...
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