my god, yeah, it burned your eyes. several companies were polluting this neighborhood. at one time, there were 36 lead smelters in philadelphia. anzon was one of 148 smelters in just the river wards. i knew about this growing up but i didn t know the severity of it all. what was the time you said i ve got to get involved? my children and every other child in this neighborhood. of an years of abuse, gregory and his neighbors had enough. they sued anzon for putting their families at risk. there s a lot of complicated feelingeds around this thing. they were employing people and you wanted them shut down. they hated us. it was a long fight but gregory and his neighbors continued their push and won. the community was never properly cleaned up so the neighborhood continued to grow on top of a toxic terrain. 20 years later, wendy and barbara still found unsafe levels of lead throughout the neighborhood. we got a settlement out of