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December 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
🗣️The Examination is hiring! We are seeking an experienced reporter to join our food team to craft stories on an industry whose products are among the leading causes of preventable disease worldwide. Deadline to apply is January 16, 2026. Learn more: www.theexamination.org/careers/food...
In this week’s newsletter: A roundup of our reporters’ most interesting, surprising, and disturbing discoveries. Plus, a look back at historical holiday advertising from Big Tobacco. Read more: bit.ly/4jdTHGf
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December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
In this week’s newsletter: A roundup of our reporters’ most interesting, surprising, and disturbing discoveries. Plus, a look back at historical holiday advertising from Big Tobacco. Read more: bit.ly/4jdTHGf
The Nigerian government has closed battery recycling plants and begun cataloging damage in Ogijo after our investigation with @nytimes.com revealed lead poisoning. Officials plan to test soil, air and residents’ blood and are considering compensation.
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Nigeria Closes Factories Linked to U.S. Auto Industry Amid Lead Poisoning Inquiry
Carmakers have known for decades that battery recycling was poisoning people abroad. Nigeria’s crackdown is an effort to catalog the damage.
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December 18, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Nigerian government has closed battery recycling plants and begun cataloging damage in Ogijo after our investigation with @nytimes.com revealed lead poisoning. Officials plan to test soil, air and residents’ blood and are considering compensation.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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EU officials had a series of undisclosed meetings with Philip Morris International, then took actions that favored the company, raising questions about whether the EU breached its commitment to a global anti-tobacco treaty. Read more: bit.ly/4oSZKkF
EU officials acted to aid tobacco giant abroad, documents show
The EU’s actions were a “great help,” Philip Morris International said in an email.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
EU officials had a series of undisclosed meetings with Philip Morris International, then took actions that favored the company, raising questions about whether the EU breached its commitment to a global anti-tobacco treaty. Read more: bit.ly/4oSZKkF
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When the world’s largest tobacco company needed help lifting international restrictions on its products, it enlisted an unlikely ally: the European Union, a leader in tobacco control.
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Read our joint investigation with @theexamination.org.
EU officials acted to aid tobacco giant abroad, documents show
The EU’s actions were a “great help,” Philip Morris International said in an email.
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December 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
When the world’s largest tobacco company needed help lifting international restrictions on its products, it enlisted an unlikely ally: the European Union, a leader in tobacco control.
Read our joint investigation with @theexamination.org.
Read our joint investigation with @theexamination.org.
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EU officials met with reps of Philip Morris International at least six times from September 2022 through 2024, documents show. The tobacco giant’s agenda? Enlist their help in lifting restrictions on its products.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
EU officials met with reps of Philip Morris International at least six times from September 2022 through 2024, documents show. The tobacco giant’s agenda? Enlist their help in lifting restrictions on its products.
Read our investigation with @theexamination.org 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
Read our investigation with @theexamination.org 👉 www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
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For decades, U.S. automakers knew that recycling lead for car batteries was poisoning people – and didn’t act. Listen to our investigation with @nytimes.com on the human cost behind the industry’s supply chain:
The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 02/12/2025 · 32m
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December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
For decades, U.S. automakers knew that recycling lead for car batteries was poisoning people – and didn’t act. Listen to our investigation with @nytimes.com on the human cost behind the industry’s supply chain:
Parents were left with questions after Target quietly recalled at least 25,000 units of baby food from its shelves earlier this year, and people are still falling ill, nine months after a toxic spill at a Chinese-owned mine in Zambia. Read more in this week’s newsletter: bit.ly/48NuhLX
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December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Parents were left with questions after Target quietly recalled at least 25,000 units of baby food from its shelves earlier this year, and people are still falling ill, nine months after a toxic spill at a Chinese-owned mine in Zambia. Read more in this week’s newsletter: bit.ly/48NuhLX
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Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...
The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People
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December 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Please give a listen to today's episode of @nytimes.com The Daily which features our joint investigation with @theexamination.org on horrific lead poisoning of communities in Nigeria as part of recycling of lead used to make car batteries in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/p...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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For decades, U.S. automakers knew that recycling lead for car batteries was poisoning people – and didn’t act. Listen to our investigation with @nytimes.com on the human cost behind the industry’s supply chain:
The ‘Clean’ Technology That’s Poisoning People
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 02/12/2025 · 32m
podcasts.apple.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
For decades, U.S. automakers knew that recycling lead for car batteries was poisoning people – and didn’t act. Listen to our investigation with @nytimes.com on the human cost behind the industry’s supply chain:
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Lead recycling can be done safely – but automakers like Ford and GM buy from battery companies that source some of their lead from overseas factories that cut costs and spew toxic smoke into the air. Here’s how that’s poisoning a town in Nigeria.
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www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning people
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Lead recycling can be done safely – but automakers like Ford and GM buy from battery companies that source some of their lead from overseas factories that cut costs and spew toxic smoke into the air. Here’s how that’s poisoning a town in Nigeria.
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
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In Ogijo, Nigeria, 70% of residents tested had lead poisoning. Local leaders say they need the jobs provided by car battery recyclers. The lead they produce ends up in batteries made for Honda, Ford and others. Read our investigation with @nytimes.com → bit.ly/4oDRtBW
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning people
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In Ogijo, Nigeria, 70% of residents tested had lead poisoning. Local leaders say they need the jobs provided by car battery recyclers. The lead they produce ends up in batteries made for Honda, Ford and others. Read our investigation with @nytimes.com → bit.ly/4oDRtBW
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Automakers celebrate their efforts to source materials ethically, but most of them ignore lead — even though some of the lead in conventional car batteries comes from recycling plants in developing countries that spew poisonous smoke into the air.
The auto industry was warned: Battery recycling was poisoning people
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
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November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Automakers celebrate their efforts to source materials ethically, but most of them ignore lead — even though some of the lead in conventional car batteries comes from recycling plants in developing countries that spew poisonous smoke into the air.
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70% of residents we tested in Ogijo, Nigeria, had harmful levels of lead in their blood. Our field tests in Africa’s battery recycling capital reveal the human costs of a murky supply chain.
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
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How we linked the auto industry to lead poisoning in Nigeria
Blood and soil testing confirmed the health consequences. Then we tracked individual shipments to the United States.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
70% of residents we tested in Ogijo, Nigeria, had harmful levels of lead in their blood. Our field tests in Africa’s battery recycling capital reveal the human costs of a murky supply chain.
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
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The auto industry touts battery recycling as an environmental success story. But in Ogijo, Nigeria, recycling factories that supply lead to the U.S. auto industry spew toxic lead dust over homes, schools and farms.
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning people
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.theexamination.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The auto industry touts battery recycling as an environmental success story. But in Ogijo, Nigeria, recycling factories that supply lead to the U.S. auto industry spew toxic lead dust over homes, schools and farms.
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
In this week’s newsletter: Automakers knew lead recycling was poisoning people – and didn’t act.
Plus: Battles at COP11 over whether Big Tobacco is hijacking “harm reduction” and toxic gas flaring drives a public health crisis in Iran
Plus: Battles at COP11 over whether Big Tobacco is hijacking “harm reduction” and toxic gas flaring drives a public health crisis in Iran
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November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
In this week’s newsletter: Automakers knew lead recycling was poisoning people – and didn’t act.
Plus: Battles at COP11 over whether Big Tobacco is hijacking “harm reduction” and toxic gas flaring drives a public health crisis in Iran
Plus: Battles at COP11 over whether Big Tobacco is hijacking “harm reduction” and toxic gas flaring drives a public health crisis in Iran
Automakers celebrate their efforts to source materials ethically, but most of them ignore lead — even though some of the lead in conventional car batteries comes from recycling plants in developing countries that spew poisonous smoke into the air.
The auto industry was warned: Battery recycling was poisoning people
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
www.theexamination.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Automakers celebrate their efforts to source materials ethically, but most of them ignore lead — even though some of the lead in conventional car batteries comes from recycling plants in developing countries that spew poisonous smoke into the air.
The American auto industry has known for decades that factories producing lead for use in conventional car batteries are poisoning people – but they have done little to stop it.
The auto industry was warned: Battery recycling was poisoning people
Despite decades of evidence on the toxic effects of battery recycling, companies opted not to act and blocked efforts to clean up the industry.
www.theexamination.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The American auto industry has known for decades that factories producing lead for use in conventional car batteries are poisoning people – but they have done little to stop it.
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Lead can be recycled cleanly, but automakers like Ford and GM source batteries made by companies that use lead from unsafe factories overseas. Our investigation with @NYT shows how car battery recycling is poisoning a community in Nigeria. bit.ly/3XBhrdo
November 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Lead can be recycled cleanly, but automakers like Ford and GM source batteries made by companies that use lead from unsafe factories overseas. Our investigation with @NYT shows how car battery recycling is poisoning a community in Nigeria. bit.ly/3XBhrdo
The auto industry touts battery recycling as an environmental success story. But in Ogijo, Nigeria, recycling factories that supply lead to the U.S. auto industry spew toxic lead dust over homes, schools and farms.
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning people
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.theexamination.org
November 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
The auto industry touts battery recycling as an environmental success story. But in Ogijo, Nigeria, recycling factories that supply lead to the U.S. auto industry spew toxic lead dust over homes, schools and farms.
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Read our investigation with @nytimes.com:
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
70% of residents we tested in Ogijo, Nigeria, had harmful levels of lead in their blood. Our field tests in Africa’s battery recycling capital reveal the human costs of a murky supply chain.
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
How we linked the auto industry to lead poisoning in Nigeria
Blood and soil testing confirmed the health consequences. Then we tracked individual shipments to the United States.
www.theexamination.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
70% of residents we tested in Ogijo, Nigeria, had harmful levels of lead in their blood. Our field tests in Africa’s battery recycling capital reveal the human costs of a murky supply chain.
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
www.theexamination.org/articles/aut...
Lead recycling can be done safely – but automakers like Ford and GM buy from battery companies that source some of their lead from overseas factories that cut costs and spew toxic smoke into the air. Here’s how that’s poisoning a town in Nigeria.
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
Recycling lead for U.S. car batteries is poisoning people
We documented the toxic fallout of a green technology.
www.theexamination.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Lead recycling can be done safely – but automakers like Ford and GM buy from battery companies that source some of their lead from overseas factories that cut costs and spew toxic smoke into the air. Here’s how that’s poisoning a town in Nigeria.
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
www.theexamination.org/articles/bat...
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November 20, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Journalism that saves lives: from tobacco to junk food to toxic pollution, we expose the powerful forces harming communities worldwide. Donate today: theexamination.org/donate