A few months ago, a test revealed that a child in Milwaukee had elevated levels of lead in their blood. The results triggered an investigation into the family’s home, then the child’s school and then ...

"It's the crime of the century," says Bruce Lanphear. He's not talking about a murder spree, a kidnapping or a bank heist. Lanphear – an environmental epidemiologist at Simon Fraser University – is ...

Milwaukee’s lead program was a national model before it descended into chaos. New leadership and federal money revived it.

Our hominid ancestors faced a Pleistocene world full of dangers—and apparently one of those dangers was lead poisoning. Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the ...

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Illinois is in the midst of a public health crisis. Nearly 1.5 million ...