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...cars. Dr. Barry Henderson, an Atlanta physician, has a Jaguar XJ6 on his shopping list, a burgundy-colored four-door sedan. "You can get a Jaguar in the mid-20s," he says, "and they're at least $35,000 in the U.S. You have to have it modified for EPA regulations, but the savings outweigh the modification costs...
...cleaner than it was ten years ago. Even so, millions of cars continue to spew out microscopic particles of a toxic pollutant: lead. Last week the Environmental Protection Agency told refiners that by next January they must eliminate 90% of the lead they put in leaded gasoline. The EPA said it is proposing a ban on all such fuel...
...used for decades to prevent engine knock, still accounts for some 45% of all gasoline sales. But lead poisoning can damage the brain, liver and kidneys, particularly in children. Recent studies have linked lead to high blood pressure. In ordering refiners to get most of the lead out, the EPA estimates that the cutback could prevent some 5,000 heart attacks and 1,000 strokes next year alone...
Some oil companies complained that the EPA ruling gives them too little time to retool their equipment to produce fuel that meets the new standards. As a result, the producers warned, temporary shortages of low-lead gas could occur...
...more than 2,000 people. Two reports released last week about a similar Union Carbide plant in Institute, W. Va., raised new worries. In one, the Environmental Protection Agency found that methyl isocyanate had leaked from the plant 28 times from 1980 to 1984, apparently in small quantities. The EPA is investigating...