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- Title
A Century of Tragedy: How the Car and Gas Industry Knew About the Health Risks of Leaded Fuel But Sold it for 100 Years Anyway.
- Authors
Kovarik, Bill
- Abstract
The article focuses on health risks of leaded fuel and public health regulations at the time General Motors Co. rushed gasoline diluted with tetraethyl lead to market despite the known health risks of lead. It mentions General Motors and Standard Oil waved the warnings aside until disaster struck in October 1924. It also mentions lead a serious menace to public health, and another called concentrated tetraethyl lead a "malicious and creeping" poison.
- Subjects
PUBLIC health; GENERAL Motors Co.; TETRAETHYLLEAD; ORGANOLEAD compounds; STANDARD Oil Co.
- Publication
CounterPunch, 2021, p1
- ISSN
1086-2323
- Publication type
Article