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Though the health crisis in Flint, Michigan, has highlighted the use of lead in water pipes, lead, a neurotoxin, can be found throughout the U.S. on walls, in soil, and in the air, says David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz, authors of the 2013 UC Press/Milbank Book Lead Wars. The authors, who were interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air, said, “The problem with lead is that it’s now really everywhere, and we’ve created a terribly toxic environment in all sorts of ways.”
