Sustainability and Environment
Environmentalists Renew Call for Action on Avgas
The new Friends of the Earth report continues the pressure on EPA as it anticipates release of endangerment finding on leaded avgas in 2018.

The environmental group Friends of the Earth (FOE) is turning up the pressure on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to take action on leaded avgas, releasing a new report charging that lead emissions at 20,000 U.S. airports threaten community health. The FOE report, “Myths and Realities of Leaded Aviation Fuel,” notes that aviation fuel accounts for 50 percent of all airborne lead emissions and cites EPA estimates that 16 million people reside near these airports.


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