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 ...

Between the early 1920s and 1980s, much of the gasoline used in the U.S. was leaded. Though usage peaked in the 1970s, it wasn’t banned as a passenger car fuel additive in the U.S. until 1996, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...