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The Center for Biological Diversity, Texas Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Sierra Club filed a formal legal petition today calling on the U.S. Department of the Interior to phase out the use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle on national wildlife refuges. Numerous scientific studies have linked lead ammunition to poisonings of wildlife and people.

Conservationists are pushing the Fish and Wildlife Service to ban lead ammunition and tackle, while the agency looks to expand hunting and fishing

Medical schools are educating the next generation of doctors on one of the most widespread, insidious health threats of our time.