{"id":701108,"date":"2021-09-06T09:39:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701108"},"modified":"2021-09-06T09:39:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T13:39:37","slug":"leaded-petrol-is-gone-but-lead-pollution-may-linger-for-a-very-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701108","title":{"rendered":"Leaded petrol is gone \u2013 but lead pollution may linger for a very long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a scientist studying lead poisoning in children once remarked: &#8220;it took two years to put lead into gasoline and 60 years to take it out&#8221;. The consensus around leaded fuel&#8217;s unacceptable threat to human health was hard won, entailing a long fight between scientists, regulatory authorities and industry. In a recent ray of good news, it seems the world has finally turned a corner on the use of this toxic chemical in fuel.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-09-petrol-pollution-linger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Leaded petrol is gone \u2013 but lead pollution may linger for a very long time<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a scientist studying lead poisoning in children once remarked: &#8220;it took two years to put lead into gasoline and 60 years to take it out&#8221;. The consensus around leaded&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}