Quote – Robert Kehoe, a scientist “cultivated by industry as the dominant authority on lead”, Clean air act hearings. Environmental Research.

There is no evidence that [leaded gasoline] has introduced a danger in the field of public health…lead is an inevitable element in the surface of the earth, in its vegetation, in its animal life, and that there is no way in which man has ever been able to escape the absorption of lead while living in this planet.

Robert Kehoe, a scientist “cultivated by industry as the dominant authority on lead”, speaks at a Clean Air Act hearing before a skeptical Senator Edward Muskie (D-ME), Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution. Clean air act hearings. From Environmental Research, “The Removal of Lead From Gasoline: Historical and Personal Reflections”, by Herbert L. Needleman. 1966.

Wednesday, June 8, 1966
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