A Grim Very Tale: The Kehoe Paradigm
Date Written: 06/01/2015
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.