Low-lead aviation gas – known as 100LL avgas – is used in aircraft with piston engines, generally smaller, ... However, this formula has not yet received the critical, ...

Lead in all forms and in any amounts is at or near the top of every environmentalist’s hit list and being the last activity to burn leaded fuel puts aviation in their bulls-eye. We’re talking ...

While the hazards of lead are clear, general aviation's need for high-octane fuel, along with small quantities produced, has delayed adoption amidst a variety of solutions.

Nearly a century of leaded gasoline use on roads around the world has come to an end, the UN Environment Programme announced Monday, after Algerian service stations stopped selling the fuel last ...

For a tragic 100 years, the car and gas industry were selling leaded gasoline, even though they knew its extreme health risks.

In 1984, Chicago banned retail sales of leaded gasoline, arguing that the fuel was poisoning the city`s children. The prohibition never went into effect, however, because it lacked the necessary fe… ...

In the U.S., the phase-out of leaded gasoline began in the 1970s and was completed when the EPA banned the sale of leaded gasoline for on-road vehicles in 1996.

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.

The largest city in the state is home to 30,000 cars and trucks that use leaded fuel. That’s about one in every 13 of the 400,000 vehicles here in Bernalillo County.

Algerian service stations last month stopped selling leaded gasoline, which is linked to serious health problems, bringing nearly a century of it use on roads around the world to an end.