EPA knows what it must do: End the use of leaded aviation fuels

From Seattle Times op-ed…

By Nathan Donley
Special to The Times

“Even small amounts of lead pollution can cause nervous system damage, reduced intelligence, behavioral changes and developmental harms that are often irreversible, especially in children.

Given those well-documented risks, the millions of Americans who live or work in neighborhoods bumping up against the nation’s airstrips have no reason to suspect that the small propeller planes routinely humming overhead are spewing dangerous levels of lead pollution.

But they are. The reality is that leaded aviation fuel, still used in the majority of small propeller planes, is the nation’s largest remaining source of lead emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/epa-knows-what-it-must-do-end-the-use-of-leaded-aviation-fuels/