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Category: Ghosts of Polluters Past

A baby plays with a toy as he sits next to a map of a section of California.
(Grist/Amelia Bates/Daniel A. Anderson)

Lead contaminates soil in communities around the country, often from long-gone pollution sources overlooked by officials. Our health depends on fixing that.

The view from behind 2-year-old Nalleli Garrido's as he looks out on his porch.
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Lead keeps poisoning children. It doesn’t have to.

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023April 17, 2023

Read the Spanish version here. Lea la versión en español aquí. SANTA ANA, California — The news came as a shock: Lead, lurking somewhere in Nalleli Garrido’s home, was poisoning her 1-year-old son.  His pediatrician instructed her to clean all the toys of her toddler, Ruben, keep the home dust-free and prevent him from playing […]

Sara Perl Egendorf is bent down as she shows a group of young children and one adult soil that has been collected in a rubber container.
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Eight ways to take action on lead contaminating your community’s soil 

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023April 17, 2023
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El plomo sigue envenenando a los niños. No tiene que ser así.

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023March 23, 2023
Sara Perl Egendorf is bent down as she shows a group of young children and one adult soil that has been collected in a rubber container.
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Ocho medidas que puedes tomar cuando el plomo contamina los suelos de tu comunidad

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023March 23, 2023
Mary Acosta Rodriguez Martinez Garcia is wearing sunglasses and looking up, leaning on metal fencing and her cane, beside railroad tracks with a Pacific Surfliner train on them.
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Toxic churn: The legacy of long-gone industry pollutes U.S. cities

Yvette CabreraClayton Aldern is looking into the camera with a serious expression. He's wearing an orange shirt and brown glasses. by Yvette Cabrera and Clayton Aldern March 22, 2023April 17, 2023
Santa Ana children walk along the train tracks that are littered with debris.
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Ghosts of polluters past

Yvette Cabrera by Yvette Cabrera March 22, 2023April 17, 2023

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