Researchers have long warned about the harmful effects of lead in paint, pipes and other products. But another once-widespread source − leaded gasoline − might have harmed the mental health of a ...

Lead was added to organic gasoline compounds to increase the fuel's resistance to pre-ignition from the 1920s through its banning in 1996. Lead exposure reached its peak in the 1960s. Scientists ...

An editorial earlier this summer (“Don’t let children near Colorado’s airports suffer the same fate as kids in Flint, Mich.” July 11, 2023) focused on an important issue, but grossly oversimplified ...

With the rest of the world having long-since moved away from leaded fuels, aviation gasoline, or "avgas" for short, seemingly exists as a final holdover from a bygone era. The most ubiquitous avgas ...