We adopted the availability chain for batteries utilized in tens of millions of U.S. vehicles to villages in Nigeria the place individuals are being poisoned by lead. Peter S. Goodman, who covers economics and geopolitics for The Occasions, describes our yearlong investigation.
By Peter S. Goodman, Will Fitzgibbon, Melanie Bencosme, Finbarr O’Reilly, Jon Miller, June Kim, Laura Salaberry and Carmen Abd Ali
November 18, 2025
