A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm

http://www.countercurrents.org/berg060115.htm
Date Written:  2015-01-06
Publisher:  Countercurrents.org
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17117

In the 1920s two employees of GM working in the research lab discovered that the addition of tetraethyllead - TEL - to gasoline would reduce engine 'knock'. It would take sixty years to stop industry from adding TEL to gasoline. During that time the lead contamination in the environment - globally - was raised by hundreds of times. Billions of tons of lead was dispersed into the environment.