More: Leaded Petrol
Inside the 20-year campaign to rid the world of leaded fuel
On 9 December 1921 at a General Motors laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, chemists poured a teaspoonful of a compound called tetraethyl lead into a...
End of leaded fuel use a ‘milestone for multilateralism’
The global phase-out of leaded fuel represents a “milestone for multilateralism”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday, marking the end of a 20-year campaign to...
End of Leaded Petrol means that the Era of Excuses Ends
The United Nations Environment Programme is set to announce the official end of leaded petrol today at 4 pm CET. This global achievement comes...