Organization
E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
U.S. chemical company that made tetraethyl lead for the Ethyl company.
- Also known as
- du Pont, DuPont
- Wikidata
- Q221062
- produced Tetraethyl lead 1923–1925
Connections 6
owns a stake in
-
Ethyl Corporation
as of 1940
Primary record
12
Howard said in 1925 that du Pont was part of Ethyl only “in an indirect way”; the Court in 1940 named General Motors and du Pont as owners of the other half, with no split given.
funded
-
Kettering Laboratory
Scholarship & press
3
As The Nation reports it.
produced
- Tetraethyl lead 1923–1925 Primary record 2
involved in
- Poisonings at du Pont’s tetraethyl lead plant at Deepwater, 1923-1924 its general manager said “We had fatalities” Primary record 2
- Ethyl Corp. v. EPA, 1976 petitioner, with PPG Primary record 4
- Surgeon General’s ad hoc committee on tetraethyl lead, 1959 its representatives, with Ethyl’s, presented data Primary record 5
Timeline 1 date
- 1923–1925 E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company produced Tetraethyl lead
Proof 5 sources
-
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation v. United States, 309 U.S. 436 (1940), Supreme Court of the United States (text via Cornell LII), 25 Mar 1940.
Primary record
The remainder is owned by General Motors Corporation and E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company.
-
Proceedings of a Conference to Determine Whether or Not There Is a Public Health Question in the Manufacture, Distribution, or Use of Tetraethyl Lead Gasoline (Public Health Bulletin No. 158), U.S. Public Health Service, Treasury Department, 1925.
Primary record
in an indirect way
Shipping in the drums from the du Pont Co- to us has never shown any effects whatever of hazard to the people handling it.
We had fatalities. The last we had in the manufacture of tetraethyl lead by the ethyl-bromide process was in July, 1924.
-
The Secret History of Lead (Jamie Lincoln Kitman, The Nation, March 2000), The Nation, 20 Mar 2000.
Scholarship & press
founded with an initial $130,000 gift from GM, Du Pont and Ethyl at the University of Cincinnati, where the lead industry paid Kehoe’s salary for half a century
-
Ethyl Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, 541 F.2d 1 (D.C. Cir. 1976) (en banc), U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (text via the Harvard Caselaw Access Project), 19 Mar 1976.
Primary record
supplemental brief of petitioners PPG Industries and E. I. duPont de Nemours & Company
-
Report, Surgeon General's Ad Hoc Committee on Tetraethyl Lead, January 8-9, 1959 (letter of March 30, 1959), U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (copy from the Kettering Laboratory files, via ToxicDocs), 30 Mar 1959.
Primary record
presented technical and medical data relating to the proposed
Page history 1 change
- Add 55 stories, each checked against its sources96e92fe6
Something wrong or missing? Tell us, with a source, or edit this page.