Salman MehdiChildren in Pakistan are being poisoned with lead, yet regulators stay silent. Where is enforcement, where is accountability? Act now before a generation pays the price. #LeadPoisoning #Pakistan #PublicHealth #ChildSafety #EnvironmentalJustice
Headlines AfricaPoor battery recycling drives lead poisoning risks in Africa's solar energy boom http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSJCNZ #BatteryRecycling #LeadPoisoning #CleanEnergy #SolarEnergy #SustainableDevelopment
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDThe #FlintWaterCrisis began on #ThisDayInHistory in 2014 with the decision by a state official to switch the city's water supply to the Flint River and to leave out corrosion inhibitors. 100,000 residents were exposed to #LeadPoisoning from lead pipes, including 14,000 children.
DoomsdaysCW#Omaha Is Home to a Massive #Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for #Lead
by Chris Bowling, Flatwater Free Press
April 15, 2026
Excerpt: "For more than a century, smoke from a lead smelter and other factories deposited 400 million pounds of the #toxic metal across the city’s east side. That prompted the Environmental Protection Agency to begin investigating the pollution in 1999, and a few years later, the agency declared 27 square miles of east Omaha to be a Superfund site. Over more than two decades, the EPA and the city have dug up and replaced nearly 14,000 yards, from about a third of the site’s residential properties.
Faced with similar public health concerns about lead, 13 states, including #NewJersey, #Louisiana and neighboring #Iowa, have passed laws requiring universal #LeadScreening, meaning all kids would get a blood test before entering kindergarten.
But not #Nebraska."
Read more:
https://www.propublica.org/article/omaha-nebraska-lead-kids-blood-tests
Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for Lead.
For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get a blood test before kindergarten. But not Nebraska.
Stephen Hayes#Evil #Toxic #Sociopathic #Capitalism #LeadPoisoning #EnvironmentalCrisis caused by private companies.
Shut the #PetroleumIndustry DOWN and prosecute their executives!
#SilentSpring #UnsafeAtAnySpeed
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No surprise. #ChelliePingree voted against HR556, #JaredGolden voted for it.
Protect #Wildlife from Toxic #LeadAmmunition [and #FishingTackle]
"#HR556, a bill to prevent federal agencies from prohibiting or regulating the use of toxic lead ammunition and fishing tackle on certain public lands and waters, passed the House of Representatives on March 18. However, we are not done fighting this bill! Lead ammunition is a well-documented threat, leading to illness and death for millions of birds and other wild animals each year. Since there is no safe level for lead exposure, hunters, anglers, and their families can also be harmed. Please contact your US representative about their vote on H.R. 556 and urge your senators to oppose this bill."
https://awionline.org/action-center#/535
Bill Status and details:
H.R.556 — 119th Congress (2025-2026)
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act of 2025
"This bill bars the Fish and Wildlife Service (#FWS), the Bureau of Land Management (#BLM), and the Forest Service from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle on federal land or water. The bill makes exceptions for specified existing regulations and where the FWS, the BLM, or the Forest Service determines that a decline in wildlife population at the specific unit of federal land or water is primarily caused by the use of lead in ammunition or tackle, based on the field data from such unit, and the state approves the regulations."
House Roll Call Vote 93 119th Congress - 2nd Session (2026)
Passed - Yea: 215 | Nay: 202
(R 208-1 Pres=0 NV=9, D 7-201 Pres=0 NV=6, I 0-0 Pres=0 NV=0)
Full voting roster:
https://www.congress.gov/votes/house/119-2/93
#USPol #MainePol #ProtectWildlife #ProtectNature #LeadPoisoning #WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #NatureIsLife
Nate@GeofCox
Ah.. But something I've run into continuously with my own parents' aspirational politics: if they constrain "class" to not really exist, then it doesn't and they can conveniently ignore any discussion using that language.
Any discussion of socialism immediately stops when you mention classes. They insist classes don't exist in the US, therefore this entire discussion is factually incorrect, and a waste of time.
It won't matter if you point out their embrace of the Epstein class as "peers" politically. (Aspirational politics) They just won't see it.
It won't matter if you point out our family interactions with the American justice system as white privilege; that we had to interact at all proves to them that there's no privilege.
#Blinders or #LeadPoisoning ? IDK.
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That Hacker GirlYummy! I saw these a few days ago in person! Had no idea they were the tasty paint chips.
In all seriousness though, this city really does need maintenance. That's dangerous. The response, "Because the use of lead-based paint was discontinued in 1979, there are no lead-related concerns regarding this structure" does not inspire confidence.
Title: "Paint flakes falling from the 28th Street Bridge contain lead and are hazardous, MDE says"
Paint flakes falling from the 28th Street Bridge contain lead and are hazardous, MDE says | Baltimore Brew
Maryland orders Baltimore officials, who initially denied the chips were lead or posed a hazard, to remove them from the ground and the Jones Falls and to prevent more paint from falling.
Leaded gas ban worked.
The EPA cracked down on lead-based products—including lead paint and leaded gasoline—in the 1970s because of its toxic effects on human health.
A scientific analysis of human hair samples, over the course of 100 years, showed a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations. Regulation worked.
Concerns are growing with our southern neighbour's government move to deregulate many key elements of the EPA’s mission.
“We should not forget the lessons of history. And the lesson is those regulations have been very important."
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/a-century-of-hair-samples-proves-leaded-gas-ban-worked/
