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There's a lot you can do to remediate lead and the bioavailable forms of it, fortunately (been working on a garden in an urban area, and bioremediation is a chief concern) -- it doesn't just have to involve removing it. Unfortunately, it's still likely to be rather expensive and unglamorous, so it'll be a tough sell as a point of policy.
The sexy project would be to figure out how to undo the effects of lead on people years after they'd been exposed as children. I think succeeding at this would wonderful, but I wouldn't put off cleaning up lead in the environment in the meanwhile.
That'd be beyond "sexy"; the effects of lead poisoning on the central nervous system are generally considered irreversible. I daresay anything that could repair that sort of brain damage would have a whole host of other applications...