What will Santa Ana do to keep low-income and Latino residents safe from toxic lead?
What will Santa Ana do to keep low-income and Latino residents safe from toxic lead?
- October 21, 2021
- Alana LeBron, Chicano/Latino studies and public health, Daily Pilot, Oct. 21, 2021
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[Patricia] Flores’ nonprofit partnered with UC Irvine researchers and other community members to study the lead levels in Santa Ana soils. … “I’m a public health professor and, honestly, I give our local public health a failing grade for handling resident concerns about lead,” Alana LeBrón, a UC Irvine assistant professor of public health and Chicano/Latino studies said. “They have been incredibly dismissive of residents’ concerns.”
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