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Since 2011, leaded gasoline has been banned in every country. A 2011 study backed by the United Nations estimated that the removal of TEL had resulted in $2.4 trillion in annual benefits, and 1.2 million fewer premature deaths. [6] Despite being banned from use in automotive fuel, TEL is sometimes still used in certain grades of aviation fuel.
Leaded gasoline was the primary fuel type produced and sold in America until 1975. Although cited as a reason for limiting the use of leaded gas, health issues associated with TEL...
Leaded gasoline's century-long reign of destruction is over. The final holdout, Algeria, used up the last of its stockpile of leaded gasoline in July.
Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says. Leaded gas was banned in 1996, but exposure to the poison cost people born before then several IQ points on...
Mid-grade gasoline was introduced in 1986 as the United States began phasing out leaded gasoline. Most gasoline stations had pumps for three grades of gasoline: leaded, unleaded, and unleaded premium (also called high-test ) gasoline.
Leaded gasoline went on to dominate fuel markets worldwide. Researchers have estimated that decades of burning leaded gasoline caused millions of premature deaths, enormous declines in IQ...
For most of the mid-twentieth century, lead gasoline was considered normal. It wasn’t: lead is a poison, and burning it had dire consequences. But how did it get into gasoline in the first place?
As of this week, however, lead has finally been phased out of all global gasoline use — a nearly two-decade effort led by the United Nations Environment Programme, or UNEP, involving a...
With leaded fuel no longer used in vehicles, the UN plans on pushing towards phasing out fossil fuels in cars and working towards mandating the use of cleaner fuels, the Guardian reports.
Official end of use of leaded petrol will prevent more than 1.2 million premature deaths and save USD 2.45 trillion a year. The end of leaded petrol follows a 19-year campaign led by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners.