Tagged With Lead Poisoning

Exposure to flame retardants is causing US kids to lose millions of IQ points. They're more damaging than lead or mercury.

Aria Bendix

Toxic fallout from the Notre Dame Cathedral fire may have exposed 6,000 children to unsafe levels of lead

Aylin Woodward

Amazon was caught selling toys containing dangerous levels of lead — including maracas with 411 times the legal lead limit

Gabby Landsverk

Newark's lead contamination crisis could be worse than Flint's. Residents say the city is handling it all wrong.

Aria Bendix

New Jersey’s largest city just handed out expired bottles of water to residents affected by the lead contamination crisis

Aria Bendix

New Jersey’s largest city is distributing bottled water — another sign that its water crisis may be mirroring Flint

Aria Bendix

A water crisis outside New York City has surpassed Flint, according to a pediatrician who helped uncover the Flint disaster

Aria Bendix

A battery plant released 3,500 tons of lead into Los Angeles. Now scientists have found lead in the baby teeth of local children.

Aria Bendix

An 11-year-old has become 'America's Top Young Scientist' for her sensor detecting lead in water

Chris Weller

Fetal deaths rose 58% after Flint switched to lead-poisoned water

Elena Holodny

Thousands of Flint residents could lose their homes over unpaid water bills

Mark Abadi

1.2 million children likely suffer from lead poisoning in the US -- but half are undetected

Rafi Letzter

This Bernie Sanders tweet about Flint's water crisis could be a big problem for Valeant

Linette Lopez

'We're heading in the right direction': Flint, Michigan appears to be turning the corner on its massive water crisis

Chris Sanchez

New Jersey officials were just hit with lawsuit claiming they 'poisoned' thousands of students

Abby Jackson

300 union plumbers gave up their weekend to install water filters in Flint -- for free

Adam Banicki

This isn't the first time Flint has had a lead poisoning crisis

Lydia Ramsey

What happens when you're exposed to lead is frightening -- and it goes a long way in explaining why people in Flint are outraged

Lydia Ramsey

The water in Flint, Michigan, has been poisoning children -- now teachers are seeing the effects

Andrew Fowler