OK International In the News
- Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getting sick. (The Examination, December 4, 2023)
- Americans’ Old Car Batteries Are Making Mexican Workers Sick (New York Times March 20, 2023)
- Recyclage de batteries au Mexique Une entreprise de la Caisse trop polluante? (La Press March 24, 2023)
- Health Alert! Aluminum cooking pot causes heart attack, stroke (Ghanaian Times March 4, 2022)
- CDC Lowers the Blood Lead Level That Sparks Action for Kids (Consumer Reports October 29, 2021)
- Toxic charge: How batteries are poisoning Kinshasa’s children (Aljazeera, October 29, 2021)
- Silicosis and the countertop industry (The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, October 11, 2021)
- Getting the Lead Out: Why Battery Recycling Is a Global Health Hazard (Yale 360, November 2, 2020)
- Notre-Dame's Toxic Fallout (The New York Times, September 16, 2019)
- The true scale of artisanal mining (The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, April 5, 2019)
- Opinion: Eliminating lead paint would save millions of lives, Perry Gottesfeld and Johnson Ongking. (The Mercury News, November 28, 2018)
- Battery recycling underlies elevated lead in African soils (Earth Magazine May 2018)
- A Kenyan mother, two disappearing Indian businessmen, and the battery factory that poisoned a village (Quartz, March 18 2018)
- Paint it Black - The Menace of Lead Poisoning (The Economist, Feb 24, 2018)
- Is America Solving, or Just Exporting, Its Environmental Problems? (Epoch Times November 9, 2016)
- PPG Industries will phase out lead from all paints by 2020 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette April 21, 2016)
- Paint giant PPG announces it will phase lead out of its products by 2020 (Cleveland Plain Dealer April 22, 2016)
- Protesters bring lead paint fight to Sherwin-Williams shareholder meeting (Cleveland Plain Dealer April 20, 2016)
- PPG will remove lead from paint (Chemical & Engineering News, May 2, 2016)
- A dangerous export (The Washington Post, February 26, 2016)
- Toronto company's lead-based products a danger to world health, critics say (CBC News, December 1, 2015)
- Feds Block Shareholders' Attempt To End Production Of Toxic Lead Paint” (Huffington Post, May 13, 2015)
- Corrupt Executives Sent To Prison For Pumping Toxic Leaded Fuel Overseas (Huffington Post, August 9, 2014)
- Study: African Aluminum Pots Contain Lead (Voice of America, August 15, 2014)
- AIHce 2014: Perry Gottesfeld Recognized for World Leadership in EHS (EHS Today, June 5, 2014)
- Toxic Lead Widespread In World's Largest Paint Market (Huffington Post, March 25, 2014)
- Long Outlawed in the West, Lead Paint Sold in Poor Nations (Yale 360 Magazine, March 28, 2013)
- Lead Paint, Other Toxic Products Banned In U.S. Still Exported To Unsuspecting Customers Abroad (Huffington Post, March 25, 2013)
- Lead paint still on sale in Africa (Chemistry World March 26, 2013)
- Toxic Export Sparks Debate (Chicago Tribune, April 9, 2013)
- Report Faults U.S. Use of Mexican Battery Recyclers (New York Times, February 8, 2013)
- A Dusty Business (Lancet Infectious Disease, June 2012)
- PPG refuses to recall leaded paint in Cameroon (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 6, 2012)
- Lead From Old U.S. Batteries Sent to Mexico Raises Risks (December 8, 2011)
- The Dark Side of Solar (Indianexpress.com, July 31, 2011)
- Leaden Rays? (Conservation Magazine, July 12, 2011)
- Paint: The Lead that is Poisoning Us (Cameroon Tribune, March 28, 2011)
- The Toxic Side of India's Battery Industry (The Mint, November 18, 2010)
- Most lead batteries do not end up with registered recyclers (The Hindu, October 28, 2010)
- Perry Gottesfeld from OK International is featured in an interview (National Public Radio's Living on Earth, February 20, 2009)
- Lead for car batteries poisons an African town (The Associated Press, January 3, 2009)
- Peru's Doe Run Subsidiary Loses Environmental Certification (The Associated Press, April 10, 2008)
- Doe Run Smelter in La Oroya, Peru, Loses Environmental Certification (Press Release, April 9, 2008)
- Water Mist Saves Lives at Stone Crushing Mills (Press Release, April 8, 2008)
- BEST Standard Offers Solution to Lead Battery Pollution (Video link to CNN, January 30, 2008)
- Now Green Certificates for Lead Battery Makers (The Hindu, January 17, 2008)
- Eco-label for Battery Manufacturers (Mail Today, January 15, 2008)
- Disposing of Defective Toys (The Washington Post, August 13, 2007)
- Poison Me Elmo (The Washington Post, August 13, 2007)
- 15 years after Bhopal (Seattle Post Intelligencer, December 9, 1999)
