Some six million Americans have drinking water tainted with higher levels of lead than allowed by US federal guidelines, the USA Today reported on Thursday.
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Mar 17, 2016
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The United States is known for trends like fat-free and gluten-free diets, but residents in Flint, Michigan are struggling with a much more serious concern: how to keep food lead-free.
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Mar 6, 2016
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For people worried about bad water, testing begins at home.
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Feb 22, 2016
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When the city of Flint switched drinking water sources in 2014, it triggered a health emergency as startlingly high levels of lead turned up in the water. An article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), the weekly newsmagazine ...
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Feb 17, 2016
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The state Environmental Protection Agency says all the most recent water samples in a northeast Ohio village are below the federal standard for lead.
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Feb 17, 2016
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Old news, from a doc in Rome–in the second century BC, quoted by William Finnegan in the New Yorker. Finnegan's is a fine angry summary of thousands of years of accumulated medical knowledge about the evils of lead, epitomized ...
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Feb 15, 2016
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Scientists from the University of Aberdeen have provided the strongest evidence yet of the origin of atmospheric lead pollution in Greenland, after studying a peat bog on the southern tip of the island.
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Feb 11, 2016
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Tap water samples taken over the last two weeks have found 30 homes with high levels of lead in a northeastern Ohio village, state environmental regulators said.
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Feb 9, 2016
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Using compost is the single best thing you can do to protect your family from any danger associated with lead in urban soils. Good compost will also guarantee that you will have plenty of vegetables to harvest.
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Feb 2, 2016
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For months, people in Flint, Michigan—a dying industrial town in the American heartland—consumed water contaminated with lead. And the country ignored it.
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Jan 23, 2016
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