Kenyan Activist Wins Landmark Environmental Case Over Lead Poisoning
The Owino Uhuru community of Jomvu, Kenya, has been awarded $1.3 billion Ksh (12 million U.S. dollars) compensation in a landmark case over lead poisoning. The 3000 residents of Jomvu all lived by or worked on, the since defunct, smelting plant, Metal Refinery EPZ Ltd. The plant opened in 2007