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Jul. 10, 2026 Our Sherwin-Williams Dilemma: Cleveland pride, Cleveland pain and a reckoning. "It rises on the horizon for Clevelanders living in poverty-stricken neighborhoods of old wooden houses, where Sherwin-Williams has had a different kind of lasting impact. A toxin the company produced in great quantities for more than 80 years has permanently damaged the brains of countless children, making school, work, relationships and stability harder before their lives had truly begun. The lead paint that vaulted Sherwin-Williams to the pinnacle of the paint industry, flowing from company plants for decade after decade, stole away the future of Cleveland’s children."
Jul. 11, 2026 Cleveland.com/Plain Dealer How Cleveland’s paint company conquered the world : Our Sherwin-Williams Dilemma, Part 2. Keep in mind that the first medical challenge to use of lead in industry was the work of Alice Hamilton, an industrial hygienist in the 1920s. The connection between lead and child health was confirmed by Herbert Needleman in the 1970s.
Jul. 12, 2026, Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com They knew: Our Sherwin-Williams Dilemma, Part 3. "And to keep Americans buying gallons of the poison, in 1928 – almost 20 years after Europe started banning lead paint -- the American producers of lead and lead paint formed an association. Its chief purpose was to beat back the ever-growing research showing how dangerous lead is and keep the lead paint flowing across the country. Sherwin-Williams, then the world’s biggest paint company and one of the biggest producers of lead pigments, was a charter member of that association." More background on the Lead Industries Association (it wasn't just paint). How the lead industry misled the public about its toxic problem for decades and Profiting from poison: how the US lead industry knowingly created a water crisis.
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