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Wisconsin misses chances to cut risk of lead exposure in drinking water

By Cara Lombardo | January 15, 2017

Funding for childhood lead poisoning prevention is down in Wisconsin, and proposals to better protect children from lead in drinking water have stalled in the Legislature.

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism stands by story on lead testing protocols after DNR request for corrections

By Cara Lombardo | December 12, 2016

Nine months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warned against flushing water systems before testing for lead, the state DNR had not passed that advice on to public water systems in Wisconsin. Our story examined that delay.

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