Superfund neighborhoods miss lead testing

Children living around large residential Superfund cleanups often aren’t enrolled in routine blood‑lead screening, because testing is left to clinicians or families rather than organized public‑health programs. That gap means widespread exposure can go undetected for years even where contamination and cleanup are well documented. — If testing is not systematized in polluted neighborhoods, official cleanup and public‑health responses will repeatedly fail vulnerable children and widen environmental‑justice harms.