lead
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Environmental justice starts with “everyday folks who feel like enough is enough”
Goldman Prize winner mark! Lopez explains how he helped shutter a polluting factory in L.A.
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Flint’s lead-poisoned water cost the city nearly 100 times as much as it was supposed to save
The disastrous switch from Lake Huron to the Flint River as the city's water source will cost it nearly $460 million.
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One more way your plane flights are killing everybody
Remember when cars used to give off disgusting clouds of lead-laden smoke? Planes still do that. Some of them do, at least — in particular, those nasty little planes that rich people fly because car traffic is for suckers. According to Scientific American, smaller planes now produce HALF of all the lead pollution in the […]
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Get the lead out: Have we already forgotten this lesson?
The new federal budget decimates funding for lead-poisoning prevention programs, even though we know they're wildly successful and hugely cost-effective.
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Regular or unleaded? Are we willing to invest in healthier homes?
Photo: Steven DepoloHey, have you heard? It’s Lead Poisoning Awareness Week! Stop. I know what you’re thinking. “We don’t have a ribbon,” says Beth Bingham, communications director for the national Coalition to End Childhood Lead Poisoning. “We get a lot of calls from people wondering what color ribbon they should wear. Everyone else has a […]
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Get the lead out: Clean air tied to decline in violent crime
Research ties the decades-long drop in violent crime to reduced urban lead poisoning.
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When soil isn’t green (it’s people)
Gardeners should take a good hard look at what's in our urban soil. But does that mean rural soil should get off easy?
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How safe is your soil?
In Oakland, efforts to encourage urban farming tangle with concerns over soil safety. Cities all over the U.S. are grappling with the same issue.
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How bullets kill wildlife decades after they’ve been fired
Honker flew the coop and dodged a bullet.Photo: Alan VernonThis piece was written by Bruce Dorminey. At first glance, Crescent Lake, a shallow body abutting a cornfield in upper Snohomish County, Wash., would appear to be perfectly pristine. Mallard and pintail ducks skirt the edges of its banks on waters that — in this contaminated […]