2:30 WAER's Sydney Gold continues series on lead poisoning problem: How a change in laws might help, after one city lawmaker took on the issue. Common Councilor Joe Driscoll has been fighting to eradicate lead poisoning in Syracuse since his election in 2017. With some of the highest rates of poisoning in America, it was an obvious cause for Driscoll, who saw lead poisoning as a major barrier, particularly for low income communities of color. councilor joe Driscoll took on the issue and helped pass the lead law. Credit The Stand File Photo
Syracuse has one of the worst lead crisis in the nation… This is already an unjust situation of economic inequality. And then for it to increase the obstacles that those individuals would be facing just seemed like injustice on top of injustice to me.