Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. In 1921, General Motors engineers discovered that tetraethyl lead could ...

Frank Howard of Standard Oil argued that tetraethyl lead was diluted at over 1,000 to 1 in gasoline and therefore posed no risk to the average person. Public health scientists challenged the need ...

The company, owned by General Motors, discovered that a terribly toxic and volatile chemical called tetraethyl lead changed ...

Frank Howard of Standard Oil argued that tetraethyl lead was diluted at over 1,000 to 1 in gasoline and therefore posed no risk to the average person. Public health scientists challenged the need ...

Tetraethyl lead must be handled with circumspection in production and distribution. The “Ethyl Gasoline,” gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead, is far less dangerous, containing only “about ...

Spattering flurries of lead flying through city streets in war-time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not ...

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 ...

The researchers only examined lead exposure caused by leaded gasoline, the dominant form of exposure from the 1940s to the late 1980s, according to data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Q: I have a 1966 T-Bird with the 390 engine. Do I need to use a lead additive in the fuel? A: Technically, yes. From the top: Tetraethyl lead was used in gasoline from the mid-1920s until the mid ...

Thank you for your “Intro to Paine Field” article on Sunday. Paine Field is a great asset, but it is also the primary source of airborne lead in the Everett area. When tetraethyl lead gasoline ...

On the frosty morning of Dec. 9, 1921, in Dayton, Ohio, researchers at a General Motors lab poured a new fuel blend into one of their test engines. Immediately, the engine began running more ...