Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.
Tag: Automobiles
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Auto Industry Was Warned For Years of Poisoning, Sickness From Car Batteries
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
Auto Industry Was Warned For Years of Poisoning, Sickness From Car Batteries
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of lead battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
Driving an E.V. Across North Dakota? Thank the Standing Rock Tribe.
A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.
Investigating a Recycling Disaster
We went to Nigeria, where recycling plants are extracting lead for use in American and European car batteries — at a terrible human cost.
How We Linked the Auto Industry to Lead Poisoning in Nigeria
Blood and soil testing confirmed the health consequences. Then we tracked individual shipments to the United States.