lead contamination

The long-awaited fixes to the Pequannock Water Treatment Plant aim to improve the way the city cleans its water and prevent the type of crisis that thrust Newark into the national spotlight in 2019.

The shift in policy means hundreds of additional children will now be eligible for city-funded services each year, amounting to a 50% increase in the city’s annual caseloads of lead exposure.

The vice president was in New Jersey to tout new federal investments on infrastructure.

The law makes New Jersey the second state in the country to mandate lead service line replacement.

An NYC Comptroller's audit found 5,700 water fixtures had high lead levels in 2018 and 2019. More than half weren't remedied after three months.

'Why is it that working people are fined while landlords who engage in reckless conduct that exposes children to permanent irreparable brain injury are rarely fined at all?'

Seven of 22 schools tested this year had water sources with levels of lead that surpassed federal standards.

Here are a few of the bigger changes we’re tracking during the 2019-2020 school year.

The Department of Education revealed that over 1,800 classrooms across the city have lead paint issues.

1,858, classrooms were found to have lead paint hazards after additional inspections were conducted in rooms serving first graders and students with special needs. The City says they are remediating them.