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11-Year-Old Just Developed New Sensor to Detect Lead in Tap Water

Photograph courtesy of 3M Proving kids are awesome. She was just named "America's Next Top Scientist." The water crisis in…

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4 million Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know

Photo: Laura Ungar, USA TODAY RANGER, Texas — The leaders of this former oil boomtown never gave 2-year-old Adam Walton…

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Gov. Brown Signs Bill Requiring California Water Districts to Test School Water for Lead

Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill Friday requiring water districts to test school water for lead in California. NBC 7…

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Escaping one of the nation’s worst environmental disaster zones

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — In May, Demetra Turner holds a letter telling her to vacate her home in the West…

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Study: Fewer pregnancies, more fetal deaths in Flint after lead levels rose in water

Kansas University assistant professor of economics David Slusky explains his study of the Flint water crisis’ impact on fertility rates…

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