Funding the fight against corporate polluters ^52.1%

Grist - By Grist Creative - 7/6/2026, 1:30 PM

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 26.2% - Optimism Bias 23.9% - Appeal to Emotion 20.9%

For decades, toxic lead cables lay like giant sea monsters snaking across the bottom of Lake Tahoe. Installed as early telecommunications lines and owned by AT&T, the abandoned cables contained over 100,000 pounds of lead and were slowly deteriorating, leaching contaminants into one of the most iconic lakes in the country. In 2021, the... more