Editorial: Small aircraft shouldn’t be allowed to keep spewing toxic lead into communities
by Los Angeles Times Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times
Oct 25, 2023
3 minutes
Lead was phased out of gasoline sold for cars and trucks decades ago. But that brain-damaging fuel additive used to prevent engine knock is still being spewed into the air across the nation — including Southern California — by small aircraft that use leaded fuel.
For two decades, community groups and environmentalists have been pushing federal regulators to ban leaded aviation fuel that is used by about 170,000 small piston-engine planes, single and twin-engine planes that typically carry between two
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