Eight months past a federal deadline, more than 90 percent of at-risk Chicagoans haven’t been told their drinking water could be unsafe.

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The company, owned by General Motors, discovered that a terribly toxic and volatile chemical called tetraethyl lead changed the way gasoline burned in the extreme temperatures and pressures created by ...

Until the state bridges the gap between climate goals and equitable policy, California's lofty environmental vision will ...

Do you think premium gas is free of ethanol and the best choice for small engines? Do you ever treat your car to an ...

At its core, American Poison tells the story of a public health activist, Alice Hamilton, versus inventor and businessman Thomas Midgley Jr. It's a David and Goliath tale—with lives at stake. During ...

Ted Bundy, Charles Manson, and many other notorious figures lived in and around Tacoma in the sixties. A new book argues that ...

THE arrival in Great Britain from the United States of ethyl petrol—the anti-knock fuel containing 6 c.c. of ethyl fluid (lead-tetra-ethyl 54-5 per cent.; ethylene dibromide 36-5 per cent.; and ...

1) The blending of the fuel— tetraethyl lead with gasoline—should be confined to as few central plants as possible. 2) The leaded gasoline should be colored, to distinguish it from plain ...

Tetraethyl lead started to be added to petrol in 1921 when three engineers at General Motors discovered that it greatly improved engine performance and reduced "knocking"—uneven burning of the ...