New video loaded: US car battery lead recycling is poisoning people
We know that recycled lead from car batteries in the United States is poisoning children because we've tested them. Will Fitzgibbon, reporter for The Exam, explains how children in Nigeria have elevated lead levels linked to lifelong brain damage, and how factory workers told us they were coughing up black dust.
Written by Will Fitzgibbon, Peter S. Goodman, Melanie Benkosme, John Miller, Laura Salaberry, Rebecca Sooner, Finbarr O'Reilly
November 25, 2025

