To: EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
Protect our health and the health of our children – Tell the EPA Administrator to get the lead ou...
Dear Administrator McCarthy:
It has been more than 16 years since the U.S. EPA required the complete phase-out of lead in automobile gasoline. Lead is a harmful and toxic chemical that causes a broad range of adverse health effects when absorbed by the body, with children being especially vulnerable.
There is no safe level of lead exposure!
Despite all of this evidence that lead is a major problem, general aviation planes continue to fly using leaded fuel. Aviation gasoline (“avgas”), used to power piston engine aircraft, is the single largest source of lead emissions in the United States.
The EPA must find that lead emissions from general aviation aircraft endangers public health and welfare and initiate a rule to eliminate lead from general aviation immediately.
It has been more than 16 years since the U.S. EPA required the complete phase-out of lead in automobile gasoline. Lead is a harmful and toxic chemical that causes a broad range of adverse health effects when absorbed by the body, with children being especially vulnerable.
There is no safe level of lead exposure!
Despite all of this evidence that lead is a major problem, general aviation planes continue to fly using leaded fuel. Aviation gasoline (“avgas”), used to power piston engine aircraft, is the single largest source of lead emissions in the United States.
The EPA must find that lead emissions from general aviation aircraft endangers public health and welfare and initiate a rule to eliminate lead from general aviation immediately.
Why is this important?
The EPA has repeatedly concluded that lead is extremely toxic to humans, wildlife and the environment and causes adverse health effects even at low doses.
Yet the EPA has continued to fail to do what the law requires and address this toxic and damaging pollution in aviation gasoline. Continued exposure to leaded aviation gasoline threatens the health of airport workers, pilots, passengers, and surrounding communities—especially children.
The multitude of warnings about toxins in our environment can often be confusing. But with lead there can be no confusion -- there is no safe level of lead exposure.
So please tell the EPA to do for aviation gas what it started doing for automobile gas more than 40 years ago: get the lead out!
Yet the EPA has continued to fail to do what the law requires and address this toxic and damaging pollution in aviation gasoline. Continued exposure to leaded aviation gasoline threatens the health of airport workers, pilots, passengers, and surrounding communities—especially children.
The multitude of warnings about toxins in our environment can often be confusing. But with lead there can be no confusion -- there is no safe level of lead exposure.
So please tell the EPA to do for aviation gas what it started doing for automobile gas more than 40 years ago: get the lead out!