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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An editorial earlier this summer (“Don’t let children near Colorado’s airports suffer the same fate as kids in Flint, Mich.” July 11, 2023) focused on an important issue, but grossly oversimplified ...