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Mormon Hair Clippings Preserve Legacy of US Ban on Leaded Gas


Hair samples preserved in family scrapbooks across the past century have revealed the success of the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) efforts to crack down on lead pollution since the 1970s.

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