Sentences with phrase «toxic lead dust»
Some 40,000 people in the community were exposed to toxic lead dust from informal battery recycling, resulting in the death of 18 children under the age of five.
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BROOKLYN — A Crown Heights landlord who left tenants without heat in the winter and exposed kids as young as 6 to toxic amounts of lead dust to get residents out of his 14 - unit apartment building so he could charge more is proof the city's rent laws need to be strengthened, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday.
And consider this: a 2016 study led by researchers at the George Washington University Milken Institute of Public Health found that typical house dust contains 45 toxic chemicals, and that 90 % of the dust samples contained 10 extremely harmful chemicals that are known to cause cancer, hormonal disruption, reproductive harm, and nervous system toxicity.
This processing creates coal slurry, or sludge, a mix of water, coal dust and clay containing toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and chromium.
In addition to the almost 3000 people who died that tragic day, about 500,000 were exposed to toxic dust and fumes that has since led to the diagnosis of numerous cancers and other illnesses.