lead

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• SOURCE: KCUR
  5/31/2022
  

  How the Lead Industry Lied to the Public for Decades

  The lead industry's trade association encouraged the public to think of lead poisoning as a problem affecting the urban poor as a strategy to stop regulation of their hazardous product, argues historian Gerald Markowitz. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/2/2022
  

  Despite Decades of Warnings, Lead Still Poisons Kids in the Midwest

  Residual lead from paint and industry remains present in and around enough homes to make chronic, low-level poisoning an ongoing concern. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/30/2021
  

  The Globe's Last Supply of Leaded Gasoline is Gone, Ending a Toxic Era

  Despite knowledge of the toxicity of lead, gasoline refiners added lead compounds to gasoline beginning in the 1920s, launching an era of massive low-grade lead poisoning. 

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• 3-31-16
  

  Video of the Week: A brief history of lead

  by Lindsay Lazarski

  In this video, we take a step back in time to look at the history of lead — how it was used, how it was banned in certain items, efforts to keep the industry strong, and how it is still used today.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  1-13-14
  

  How to End Lead Wars in America

  by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

  Lead poisoning must come to an end -- at least in San Francisco.