{"id":174566,"date":"2023-10-22T02:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/health-crisis-220000-planes-still-use-lead-fuel-warns-us-agency"},"modified":"2023-10-22T02:23:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T07:23:35","slug":"health-crisis-220000-planes-still-use-lead-fuel-warns-us-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/health-crisis-220000-planes-still-use-lead-fuel-warns-us-agency","title":{"rendered":"Health crisis: 220,000 planes still use lead fuel, warns US agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/health-crisis-220000-planes-still-use-lead-fuel-warns-us-agency2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress is currently debating the FAA\u2019s long-term reauthorization, which might have an impact on the ongoing use of leaded aviation fuel at smaller airports.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Serjio74\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1980, the US has had a stunning 99 percent reduction in airborne lead levels as a result of EPA regulations. However, Leaded gas is still used in the aviation industry, according to a report published by EPA on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is currently debating the FAA\u2019s long-term reauthorization, which might have an impact on the ongoing use of leaded aviation fuel at smaller airports. Serjio74\/iStock. Since 1980, the US has had a stunning 99 percent reduction in airborne lead levels as a result of EPA regulations. However, Leaded gas is still used in the aviation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1490,1495,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-government","category-health","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}