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 ...

The automobile itself traces its roots back to the late 19th century. Gas stations came about later, though, and people had to work a little harder to get gas up until that point. The first drive-in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Someone could make a Broadway musical about him—arguably the 20th century’s single greatest human fomenter of environmental degradation, though by most accounts a pretty nice guy. It could be a comedy ...

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.