Lead contamination in drinking water can have serious impacts on growing brains, including cognitive issues in the short term and mental illnesses years after the exposure ends.
Lead in hunted meat poses health risk to families and food banks
They call the award the Green Nobel: The annual Goldman Environmental Prize celebrates the achievements of grassroots activists from each major continent.
EPA budget cuts threaten programs to reduce kids’ exposure to lead paint
The Trump administration’s budget eliminates programs that help reduce the risks of lead paint exposure in children, alarming doctors and other public health advocates.
An investigation has found lead in 2,000 US water systems
A recent investigation by USA Today into lead levels in water systems across the country found more than 2,000 examples of systems that pose a risk to consumers.
This professor says Flint’s water crisis amounts to environmental racism
Professor Robert Bullard is called the father of environmental justice, and he says low-income communities of color often face environmental crises with lagging help from government agencies.
A fall ritual in the US has become less toxic — but no less deadly
