lead poisoning
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New Jersey Will Soon Send 168K Notices To Replace Lead Pipes At Properties
After Vice President Kamala Harris' visit last week, the Garden State continues to ramp up efforts to prioritize clean water.
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Majority-Black Michigan City Has Water Problem That Rivals Flint Water Crisis
Benton Harbor has lead contamination well beyond the federal action levels.
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Flint Asks for Extension to Test Vulnerable Homes for Lead in Water
As part of an ongoing effort to keep its water safe, Flint, Mich. has filed an extension to allow officials more time to submit water tests for the homes most likely to have lead water lines. Michigan state and federal laws require the city to test for lead lines every six months—a more frequent timetable…
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Harriet A. Washington's A Terrible Thing to Waste Injects a Dose of Hard Truth Into the Conversation About Black Lives
Harriet Washington’s 2007 tome, Medical Apartheid, not only outlined the pervasive use of medical experimentation on black Americans throughout history but circumscribed blacks’ credible distrust of the medical establishment. In fact, a large part of why J. Marion Sims’ statue was removed from New York’s Central Park more than a decade later was because of…
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The Children of Philadelphia Have Been Attending Toxic Schools for Years. This Is a National Crisis
The children of Philadelphia are in dire need of our help. They are at the mercy of a man-made, ticking time bomb that is nearly inescapable. I’m talking about toxic schools. Conditions in Philadelphia schools have needed a remedy for many years. Lead, asbestos, mold and other toxins are far too common in our aging…
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For Decades, a Predominantly Black and Latinx Indiana Town Suffered from Toxic Contamination. Mike Pence Looked the Other Way
While many are still speculating about whether it was Vice President Mike Pence who wrote an anonymous op-ed in the New York Times about the “resistance” in the White House, it’s worth remembering who Pence really is—a man who has a pattern of neglecting the lives, issues and well-being of people of color. A new…
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Common Blood Tests May Be Dangerously Inaccurate for Lead Poisoning, in Yet Another Blow to #Flint
In the latest blow to the beleaguered but resolute city of Flint, Mich., the government confirmed this week that one of the most common lab tests for lead may have given falsely low readings. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that children and pregnant may need to be retested for lead, NBC News reports.…
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Will the Jordan Downs Redevelopment Turn Watts Into Calif.’s Flint, Mich.?
In August 2013, the city of Los Angeles approved a $1 billion project to tear down the Jordan Downs housing project in Watts and build a mixed-use development that includes apartments, shops and restaurants. At the time, both Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Housing Authority President and CEO Doug Guthrie lauded this development as a win for…