NEW YORK — In the most recent round of its 12-year quest to sell a controversial gasoline additive, the Ethyl Corp. is again colliding with a formidable adversary — the U.S. automobile industry. The ...

Have pings got you down? Has driving your car become a pain in the gas? Are your exhaust valves being "lead" astray? Well, as promised in last month's "Living With Unleaded," article, have we got some ...

In the course of reading Kevin Drum’s great piece on lead and crime and writing my reply, I started reading a bit about the history of lead in gasoline, and holy crap it’s fascinating! The guy who ...

Automakers last month said they are worried that US refiners may expand their use of the octane-enhancer MMT. MMT, known by chemists as methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl, is a ...