The ozone layer will need another four decades to heal fully, and because leaded gasoline was still sold in parts of the world until 2021, many continue to live with the long-term effects of lead ...

An Environmental Protection Agency finding this past week confirms what residents around small airports nationwide have shouted for decades: Leaded aviation gasoline is poison. The long overdue ...

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.—When American Airlines pilot Kent Wien goes flying for fun, his routine includes a long detour: a 90-mile round-trip flight from his base in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., to this ...

The federal government is expanding an effort to transition the nation’s aviation sector away from leaded aviation gas, known as avgas, through a grant program that will help smaller airports ...

Childhood exposure to leaded gasoline may be responsible for more than 150 million mental health disorders in Americans alive today. That’s the shocking takeaway from a recent study published in ...

The Biden administration on Wednesday declared emissions from airplanes running on leaded aviation fuel a threat to public health — a first step toward stamping out a major source of metal ...

In its various forms, lead has been used in many everyday products for millennia. The Romans even added it to wine as a ...

Concerns about the safety of leaded petrol arose immediately when one of the engineers who made the discovery, as well as several workers producing the additive, fell sick, and some died of ...

A new study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry has calculated that millions of Americans are dealing ...