First among equals: the global phase
out of leaded gasoline, which has helped bring down blood levels of this potent neurotoxic in children.
Concentrations across the Antarctic continent have since declined, but still are about four-fold higher than before industrialization, despite the phase
out of leaded gasoline and other mitigation efforts in many countries in the Southern Hemisphere, the report states.
Not exact matches
That's thanks in part to the phase -
out of lead paint and
lead - based
gasoline by the mid-1980s.
«The main goal
of our project was to find
out how effective regulations
of gasoline vehicle emissions have been at reducing the formation
of smog,» says Greg Drozd, Ph.D. «It was also a very forward - thinking study in anticipation
of how cars that meet future emissions standards will
lead to reductions in air pollution.»
«Getting the
lead out of gasoline was a big factor,» Hartnett White said.
We brought a lot
of lead out of the environment when we changed
gasoline.
Small - block design system engineer Mark Damico is
leading development
of the new mill and isn't letting
out many details, except to say the
gasoline direct - injection system will employ solenoid actuators instead
of more - expensive piezo - based units.
The American Lung Association encourages the phase -
out of lead in aviation
gasoline, and reductions in the sulfur content
of aviation fuels.
We have got
lead out of gasoline and
out of paint.
Third, we have significant experience in the United States with the use
of this approach, including during the 1980s to phase
out leaded gasoline from the marketplace, and since the 1990s to cut acid rain by 50 percent.
And while virtually every American will have some levels
of lead in their blood, the phasing
out of lead in
gasoline from 1976 to 1991 along with other measures has caused the average level
of lead in the blood
of American adults to fall 30 % by 1980 and 80 % by 1990.
In 1976, he was involved with the US EPA to get
lead out of gasoline.
Specifically, has anyone here framed the issue in terms
of, «changing the composition
of a substance changes its properties» — and then related that to activities ranging from cooking, to metallurgy, to biotechnology, to the atmospheric effect
of taking
lead out of gasoline?
For instance, each country phased
out lead in
gasoline, plumbing and paint at different times, providing a rigorous test that shows a high degree
of likelihood that
lead poisoning can influence violent crime rates.