Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People

[ad_1] new video loaded: Recycling Lead for U.S. Car Batteries Is Poisoning People Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning children — and we know because we tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, a reporter at The Examination, describes how children in Nigeria developed lead levels associated with lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told […]

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The Real Cost of U.S. Car Batteries

[ad_1] We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The Times, describes our yearlong investigation. By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon, Melanie Bencosme, Finbarr O’Reilly, Jon Miller, June Kim, Laura […]

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