A2: Environment

Jeff Gearheart, research director at the Ann Arbor-based Ecology Center, is quoted in an LA Times article about a California court settlement requiring that lead wheel weights be phased out in the state by 2009. The weights are believed to be a health hazard by contaminating drinking water. Says Gearhart: “We fully expect dozens of states to follow California’s leadership and ban the use of lead wheel weights.” [Source]