EPA considers repealing, replacing programs that help prevent childhood lead...
Environmental advocates are bracing for potentially “catastrophic” changes to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that protect children from dangerous lead exposure across the country....
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The hidden toxic threat in America’s backyards
Childhood lead poisoning dramatically decreased across America as the federal government began phasing out leaded gasoline in the 1970s. But many children are still being exposed today because of...
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Urban children are playing in toxic dirt
During a routine visit to the doctor several years ago, Maria Vasquez was given the alarming news that her youngest son, Ulises, had lead in his blood, and one of the first questions the concerned...
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Playing with poison: Lead-contaminated soil exposes children to lifelong...
The yard inside 11-year-old Cesar Gaspar’s Santa Ana apartment complex is cluttered with bicycles and scooters, but it’s the barren patches of dirt along the walkways that became Cesar’s dusty domain...
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The lead-to-prison pipeline
On a day like any other, Abraham Medina was walking home from school in Garden Grove when he faced a decisive moment: One wrong move could have landed him in juvenile detention, but the quick-thinking...
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EPA has 90 days to update lead regulations after activists score major...
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Wednesday ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to swiftly update antiquated federal lead regulations, a major victory for advocates who charged...
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Michigan’s sweeping new water regulations set new standard for states plagued...
Michigan is set to become the first state in the country to get rid of lead pipes meant to carry drinking water, a result of the enduring legacy of the crisis infamously plaguing the town of Flint. The...
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More than half of U.S. school districts aren’t testing for lead in their...
Less than half of U.S. school districts are testing their drinking water for lead, according to a new government report. Those that do are seeing alarming results: more than a third found elevated...
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Official charged with manslaughter over deaths linked to Flint water crisis
Michigan’s state health director will stand trial for involuntary manslaughter over two deaths that have been linked to Flint’s water crisis, a judge ruled Monday. State Judge David Goggins called Nick...
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The bitter legacy of the East Chicago lead crisis
By Gloria Oladipo Akeeshea Daniels once lived in the West Calumet public housing complex in the shadow of a former lead smelter in East Chicago, Indiana. She worried about the pervasive lead...
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