GETTING THE LEAD OUT

To meet the new federal emissions standards, General Motors Corporation decided in 1970 to equip its cars with catalytic converters, which lead inactivates. Other carmakers followed suit, and leaded gasoline became one of the few environmentally unsafe products to be forced out of the market place. Get the lead out replaced put a tiger in your tank as the slogan of the environmental 1970s. Ethyl Corporation officials felt betrayed how could General Motors, the father of tetraethyl lead, sell its share of Ethyl for millions of dollars and then arrange for the product s demise ... 

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Auto emissions have been closely monitored, and strict controls have been put Into place to minimize the amount of unbumed hydrocarbons released into the atmosphere. The Clean Air Act of 1990 was passed to help reduce hydrocarbon emissions from automobiles. The catalytic converter was developed to help react the unburned hydrocarbon and produce a less dangerous emission of carbon dioxide and water. (As a side benefit, lead had to be eliminated from gasoline because it poisoned the catalyst and made the catal3dic converter useless. The big campaign to get the lead out removed a major source of the deadly heavy metal from the environment.)... 

In addition, pesticides used in treating crops may be released into the waterways. These pesticides, especially the organo-phosphorus ones, may undergo biological concentration (see We really didn t get the lead out Heavy metal contamination, earlier in this chapter). Many of us remember... 

First get the child out of the lead, then get the lead out of the child. 

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