Sustainability and Environment
Leaded Avgas Attracts Another Lawsuit

Environmental group Friends of the Earth filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), charging the agency with failure to respond to its 2006 petition requesting the regulation of lead emissions from GA aircraft under the Clean Air Act. In the petition, the group asked the EPA to rule that emissions from aircraft that burn leaded fuel may pose a threat to public health. According to the group, nearly six years later, there has been no final action from the agency. “The EPA’s continuing failure to do what the law requires and address this pollution leaves us no choice but to take this critical public-health issue to the courts,” said Marcie Keever, the group’s legal director. If successful, the legal action will force the EPA process for a potential hazard ruling onto a court-ordered timeline.

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