Uncle Sam has decided to "get the lead out" of gas. Face it: The lead is coming out. For better or for worse, our EPA who art in Washington has already cut the allowable gasoline lead concentration ...

Roughly 170,000 piston-engine aircraft are used across the country. Nearly all burn a grade of aviation gasoline that contains lead. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Reading Time: 7 ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the results of a study that was published earlier this week, and it regarded the effects of leaded gasoline on American kids and their development between 1940 and 2015. It ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Lindsay Hafer and David Buttolph live in Lititz. A correction has been made to reflect that they both live in Manheim Township.

In its various forms, lead has been used in many everyday products for millennia. The Romans even added it to wine as a sweetener. Its most widespread use, however, was its addition to petrol. And it ...

Despite the removal of poisonous lead from automotive fuel in the face of growing health problems, aviation fuel for small planes still use leaded gas extensively. In attempting to replace leaded ...

The study found that people born in the 1960s and 1970s, when lead gas consumption was booming, may have lost up to seven IQ points at worst Stephanie Wenger is a TV Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Thomas Cahill and colleagues at the Crocker Nuclear Lab used the lab’s cyclotron, a type of particle accelerator that makes a beam of protons, to study air quality, among other things. In the 1970s, ...