Leaded gasoline information

• The history of leaded gasoline
• Alternatives to leaded gasoline
• UN Environmental Program and OECD report on global reduction of leaded gasoline.
• Lead in the Americas: A Call for Action National Academy of Sciences site, report concerning findings of National Institute of Public Health of Mexico and other organizations. The phasing out of leaded gasoline is the primary initial recommendation.
• Earth Summit Watch shows how the United Nations campaign against leaded gasoline is beginning to succeed.
• Jacobo Finkelman of the Pan American Health Organization expresses concern about the high levels of leaded gasoline in use in Latin America.
• David Morris points out that oil industry subsidies far exceed those for ethanol, the primary alternative to leaded gasoline.
• Physicians for Social Responsibility maintains a site on preventing lead poisoning in children.
• OSHA fact sheet on Tetraethyl lead
• Lead threats lessen, according to FDA Consumer magazine, 1993. Of course, this is in the US, where leaded gasoline has been discredited and permanently abandoned.
• Oxford University Libraries Archive FAQ on gasoline which includes good engineering data but, unfortunately, a number of "traditional" historical errors about the origins of leaded gasoline and the intentions of its inventors. See Ten Myths about leaded gasoline.

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