The Real Cost of U.S. Car Batteries

We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics...

By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon, Melanie Bencosme, Jon Miller, June Kim, Laura Salaberry and Carmen Abd Ali · The New York Times – World

We followed the supply chain for batteries used in millions of U.S. cars to villages in Nigeria where people are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The Times, describes our yearlong investigation.