Updated Jan 26, 2021; Posted Jan 26, 2021 By Michael Sol Warren | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com A significant chapter in Newark’s drinking water saga is coming to a close. On Tuesday, the Natural Resources Defense Council announced it, along with the Newark Education...
By Michael Sol Warren | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com It was a hot, sunny summer afternoon when Newark residents lined up for bottled water. On Aug. 12, 2019 — days after the federal government cast doubt on filters that had been handed out for months before — community...
This New Jersey city’s water crisis is an emergency akin to that of Flint, Michigan, with poor, Black people its main victims WRITTEN BY Naomi Extra Oct 7, 2019·12 min read Naomi Extra is a freelance writer, poet, and doctoral candidate in American Studies at Rutgers...
By Nick Corasaniti, Corey Kilgannon and John Schwartz Published Aug. 24, 2019Updated Sept. 23, 2019 NEWARK — In the year after receiving test results showing alarming levels of lead in this city’s drinking water, Mayor Ras Baraka of Newark made a number of unexpected...
Interview 9/12/2019 Thousands of residents in Newark, New Jersey, remain unable to drink their tap water in an enduring public health nightmare. Lead contamination has plagued the city for years, but lead levels have spiked even higher in 2019. The crisis recently...
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