Ash-har Quraishi is a consumer correspondent based in Chicago. He is an Emmy Award-winning journalist with more than 25 years of local, national, international and investigative reporting experience.

The federal government is investing billions of dollars to crack down on lead in water sources nationwide, including through new requirements for water systems to track lead contamination in schools’ ...

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Lead in drinking water remains a serious issue across the United States, and while some states have relatively few reported lead service lines, others have hundreds of thousands of lead service lines ...

Title image: The scene at the Replacing Lead Pipes for Clean Drinking Water event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 8 October 2024. (Credit: USEPA) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced ...

Lead pollution likely dropped the average IQ in ancient Rome by 2.5 to 3 points, a study found. The research is based on an analysis of lead concentrations in ice cores extracted from Greenland. The ...

When it comes to being an amateur chef, aluminum cookware ticks off a lot of boxes. It’s usually more affordable, lighter, and is known to cook food evenly and quickly. But there is one big question ...

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Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic lead service lines, the underground pipes that connect buildings to the city’s water supply. The city has the most lead service lines in the ...

A construction worker works on dislodging an old lead line in the basement of a house before his colleague pulls it out using an excavator. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror This story is part of CT ...