To End Childhood Lead Poisoning and Citizens Network Working Group on Toxics 1.
Lead poisoning remains a major worldwide threat to environmental health and sustainable development.
Children and adults in every region are daily exposed to unsafe levels of lead in the environment, the home, the community, and the workplace. Leaded gasoline remains the most widespread source of environmental contamination and human exposure to lead. Cleaner fuels co-benefit environmental health, air quality, and climate change. Introducing cleaner fuels by eliminating lead and sharply reducing sulfur content is a proven and exemplary strategy that can simultaneously protect climate, decrease mortality and morbidity from air pollution, preserve natural ecosystems, and save money with little, if any, adverse environmental or financial consequences. These devices reduce emissions, improve energy efficiency, and optimize fuel economy, markedly reducing conventional urban air pollutants harmful to health, ranging from ozone to dioxin.