Funding the fight against corporate polluters

An innovative new nonprofit called WHEN Justice is turning targeted litigation funding into a powerful tool for justice.
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 icon…
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