"Removing [it] from our environment and not putting it there in the first place has more benefits than we previously ...

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.

“If you look at the current population, Generation X likely had the highest exposures, en masse, of any U.S. generation.” ...

Childhood lead exposure from leaded gasoline has caused widespread mental health issues, particularly in Generation X, ...

For starters, the previous use of lead in gasoline means more than half of the current U.S. population was exposed to unhealthy lead levels as kids. Lead was first added to gasoline in 1923 ...

Exposure to lead in gasoline during childhood resulted in many millions of excess cases of psychiatric disorders over the last 75 years, a new study estimates. Lead was banned from automobile fuel ...

Airports in Madison, Middleton and Waunakee sell leaded fuel for small planes. In Middleton, lead may have contaminated ...