Lead contamination

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-12-16
  

  How Flint’s water and Brazil’s Zika stoke anxiety about kids

  by Steven Mintz

  The key question is whether Americans will respond to Zika and lead poisoning as problems predominantly of the poor, met with pity and a shrug of the shoulders, or as a call to arms.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  2-9-16
  

  Two, Three... Many Flints

  by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

  America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis

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• SOURCE: Edge Effects
  2-4-16
  

  America’s First Great Epidemics From Lead in Water Pipes

  by Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

  During the 1890s and early 1900s, epidemics of water-related lead poisoning occurred all across the United States and Europe.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1-25-16
  

  Piping as poison: the Flint water crisis and America’s toxic infrastructure

  by Chris Sellers

  An estimated three to six million miles of lead pipes across our country still carry water, and most all of them are vulnerable to similar dangers.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  1-29-16
  

  Flint's toxic water crisis was 50 years in the making

  by Andrew R. Highsmith

  Structural inequality and environmental degradation are the twin problems today in Flint -- as they have been for more than half a century.

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• 1-24-16
  

  Why Did Officials Neglect Flint? Because They Felt They Could.

  by Bob Buzzanco

  This is the long awful lesson of impoverished communities.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1-19-16
  

  It’s not coincidence that Flint happens to be where GM got its start

  GM introduced lead into gasoline. The Flint River was where lead in cars wound up.