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Emissions from aircraft that use leaded aviation gasoline are a significant source of environmental pollution in neighborhoods near regional airports, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon State University and Portland State University. The findings were published in Communications Sustainability.

Ice cores show ancient silver production produced lead levels high enough to lower some people’s IQ

Lead near airports rises up to 50 times above background with isotopic evidence identifying aviation gasoline as the dominant source, indicating substantial residential contamination, according to mos...

US government would be prohibited from ever mandating lead pipe replacement or lowering lead limits in water

Metal cookware is a key source of lead exposure in Ghana. Tracing the Toxic Pot, a documentary by Nadima Umar Uthman for GHOne TV, looks at solutions from government regulatory authorities and Pure Earth Ghana to address lead contaminated aluminum cooking pots, which are molded from the collection of scrap metals and used in homes across Ghana. Learn more about Pure Earth Ghana: https://www.pureearth.org/ghana/ #leadpoisoning #leadpollution #leadexposure

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Ted Bundy, the Green River Killer, and others terrorized the Pacific Northwest. "Murderland" asks what role polluters played.

Tell the EPA to ban a significant source of lead now

Lead is highly regulated today, but that wasn’t always the case for the toxic heavy metal. In fact, the industrial ingredient was at once so pervasive that experts estimate around 90 percent of Americans...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating...