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Aug 30, 2021 · The United Nations said on Monday that the world is no longer using the toxic fuel, bringing an end to a century of damaging pollution. Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over ...
- Camila Domonoske
Jan 11, 2022 · In response, many countries began to phase out leaded gasoline in the 1970s. The US Environment Protection Agency, for example, issued guidelines to reduce lead content in 1983. But it wasn’t until 1986 – six decades after its introduction – that Japan became the first country to ban it completely. Three and a half decades later – in ...
Aug 30, 2021 · There is now no country in the world that uses leaded petrol for cars and lorries, the UN Environment Programme has announced. The toxic fuel has contaminated air, soil and water for almost a century.
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Aug 30, 2021 · In this Dec. 1955 file photo, a man posts a price for leaded gasoline at a station in Everett, Mass. The United Nations said on Monday that the world is no longer using the toxic fuel, bringing an ...
Sep 3, 2021 · The end of leaded gasoline throughout the world will do a lot to fight lead poisoning by itself, but ideally it would be accompanied by measures to attack the other ways lead enters children’s ...
- Kelsey Piper
Aug 31, 2021 · Leaded gasoline has been banned in the U.S. for decades but was still used in other parts of the world. Less than 20 years ago, 117 countries still used leaded gas.
Aug 30, 2021 · Inside the 20-year campaign to rid the world of leaded fuel. On 9 December 1921 at a General Motors laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, chemists poured a teaspoonful of a compound called tetraethyl lead into a spasming motor. They were hoping to stop what’s known as ‘knock’ - the wild and potentially engine-destroying vibrations that come from ...
