It wasn’t until 1970 that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially declared that lead from automobile exhaust was a direct threat to human health. In 1973, the agency began to impose ...

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In its various forms, lead has been used in many everyday products for millennia. The Romans even added it to wine as a sweetener. Its most widespread use, however, was its addition to petrol. And it ...

Exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas is calculated to have lowered the IQ of about half of the U.S. population, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

After all those "lead paint" jokes about boomers, the shoe may be on the other foot. It's become a common internet joke in recent years — or maybe an actual theory — to attribute boomers' often ...

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GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - A new study shows decades of lead exposure from gasoline may be linked to devastating impacts across generations. The research is shedding light on the long-term effects of ...

Americans might have been a whole lot more intelligent had it not been for lead-based gasoline. Lead was first added to gasoline in 1923, apparently to keep our car engines 'healthy.' But the move ...

Leaded gasoline was widely used as car fuel in the US from the 1920s until the 1970s — it was phased out because it was found to be harmful to the environment and human health. It’s taken decades for ...