More than two months after jet fuel contaminated Piscataway Creek at Joint Base Andrews, it is still unclear how at least 22,000 gallons of the toxic liquid leaked from the sprawling air base, why it wasn’t caught sooner and where it may have gone.

Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which was widely considered a …read more