Environment watchdog buried report on lead in children’s blood to placate mining companies, emails show
Documents tabled in NSW parliament show state agency took four years to publish report and told miners it would be put online quietly' but EPA says it was released to community earlier
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The New South Wales environment watchdog sat on a report for four years linking elevated levels of lead in children's blood to current mining, and promised mining companies they would not do any finger-pointing", new documents tabled in state parliament show.
The documents include internal emails released under freedom of information laws that show the scientist who produced the report into lead exposure in Broken Hill was at one point texting the Environment Protection Authority every two days asking when it would be published.
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