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Ocho medidas que puedes tomar cuando el plomo contamina los suelos de tu...

Reading Time: 7 minutes Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Lea la versión en inglés aquí. Read the English version here. ¿Hay plomo acechando en los suelos que te rodean? La...

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El plomo sigue envenenando a los niños. No tiene que ser así.

Reading Time: 21 minutes Lea la versión en inglés aquí. Read the English version here. La noticia fue un shock: el plomo, escondido en la casa de Nalleli Garrido, estaba envenenando a su hijo de un...

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Eight ways to take action on lead contaminating your community’s soil 

Reading Time: 6 minutes Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Read the Spanish version here. Lea la versión en español aquí. Is lead lurking in the soil around you? Dangerous lead...

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Lead keeps poisoning children. It doesn’t have to.

Reading Time: 18 minutes Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Read the Spanish version here. Lea la versión en español aquí. SANTA ANA, California — The news came as a shock: Lead,...

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Protecting people’s health in the era of global warming

Reading Time: 9 minutes As the nation’s most populous state, California has long influenced environmental-health protections outside its own borders. And its environmental challenges sound all too...

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Planning for environmental justice for all

Reading Time: 6 minutes This story was published as a partnership between the Center for Public Integrity and Fresnoland When Arlin Benavides Jr. set out to hear residents’ environmental concerns in...

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Taking the highway to right wrongs of the past in urban areas

Reading Time: 4 minutes Roads might not seem like an obvious solution to structural inequalities. But for Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, addressing those inequalities requires restoring Black...

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EPA promised to address environmental racism. Then states pushed back.

Reading Time: 22 minutes Subscribe on Google | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon This story also appeared in Mother Jones FLINT, Mich. — Civil rights law offers a tool for communities of color trying...

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The decades-long fight in a community treated as a dumping ground

Reading Time: 9 minutes Protecting people’s health from environmental hazards, Maricela Mares-Alatorre and her family found out the hard way, is a never-ending fight.  She was in high school in the...

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How to protect your community from the toxic lead lurking in soil

Reading Time: 2 minutes Lead poisoning is often treated as if it’s a problem of the past. But its harmful legacy lingers today, particularly in the soil of urban centers across the United States.  This...

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