When service stations in Algeria stopped providing leaded petrol in July, the use of leaded petrol ended globally. This development follows an almost two decades long campaign by the UNEP-led global Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV). Since 1922, the use of tetraethyllead as a petrol additive to improve engine performance has been a catastrophe for the… Continue reading Toxic lead in petrol has been eliminated globally
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Lead poisoning, gasoline lobbies and crime
Lead pollution was supposed to be eliminated in US long back, but it did not happen Most of you have probably heard how the residents of Flint, Michigan were exposed to unhealthy levels of lead in their water (actually, any level is considered unhealthy) due to political and managerial incompetence.* Then I read this article on the “lead-poisoned generations… Continue reading Lead poisoning, gasoline lobbies and crime