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• Minnesota: Air base tests for pollution in residential drinking water

  DULUTH, MINN. — 18 families living on or near Duluth’s Martin Road could now be questioning the safety of their drinking water. Yesterday, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency sent letters to the families describing a potentially dangerous chemical that could be leaking from Duluth’s Air National Guard Base. Perfluorochemicals, or PFCs are a family of […]

• PFOS in Guernsey: Airport fire foam pollution has reached the reservoir

  A STREAM that runs from the airport to St Saviour’s Reservoir has been contaminated by a dangerous chemical, it has emerged. Private wells and boreholes in the surrounding area were also polluted by perfluorooctane sulphonate – PFOS – after three incidents at the airport in which poisonous foam concentrate was spilled and soaked into the […]

• Oregon’s Hynix air pollution exceeds allowed hydrogen fluoride levels

  The Hynix computer chip plant in west Eugene released more air pollution than it was allowed to in 2006 under its permit. But local air quality regulators say the company had been trying since last July to get its permit level raised. That process has just taken longer than anyone anticipated, officials with the company […]

• Pollution board slaps show-cause on VAL

  SAMBALPUR: Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), Jharsuguda, has been issued with show-cause notice by the State Pollution Control Board (SPCB) for violating various sections of water and air pollution Acts. The notice has been issued to CEO and whole-time Director of VAL M Siddiqi after VAL failed to rectify anomalies regarding pollution as pointed out by […]

• Ontario, Canada: Hamilton airport hush-hush on contamination and cleanup

  Hamilton residents should finally learn next month how badly contaminated their airport is with old firefighting foam chemicals and what will be done about it. Private airport operator TradePort began studying the extent of perfluorooctanyl sulfonate (PFOS) pollution at the facility’s old firefighting training pad after tests revealed high levels of the banned synthetic chemical […]

• Hydrogen fluoride emissions from Hynix’s air pollution application worries residents

  In the past decade, Hynix’s giant green and tan factory with its constant gentle hum has become part of the scenery at the Hamlins’ llama ranch off Bailey Hill Road in west Eugene. “We’ve got a view of the city lights,” Fred Hamlin said earlier this week, gesturing toward downtown Eugene as he stood in […]

• Estonia: Fluorine and Chlorine Emissions Free from Pollution Taxes

  National Audit Office finds that pollution charges in general have not contributed to a reduction in ambient air pollution or the production of waste, as it is much more economical to pay the charges than it is to cover the cost of investing in environmentally friendly technology. The limited impact of pollution charges on reducing […]

• Air Pollution Board Won’t Watch Fracking

  In a split vote the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District Board set aside staffs recommendations and decided the County does not need to gather information about potential effects on air quality caused by hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Supervisor Linda Parks had led the Board in asking APCD staff to prepare a report and recommendations […]

• Donora: The 1948 poisonous smog that killed 20 led to creation of the Clean Air Act

  John R. West hadn’t missed a day of work for two years before he walked through his front door one Friday from his job at a local coal mine and said he just didn’t feel well. He told his wife he had chest and head pain, and worse, he couldn’t breathe. West, 56, wanted to […]

• 2 dairy farmers sue chemical plant over fluoride in Montco

  Two Montgomery County farmers who have complained for years that pollution from a nearby chemical plant caused death and disease in their dairy herds have filed suit against the company. Merrill Mest of Schwenksville and Wayne Hallowell of Gilbertsville say excessively high levels of fluoride released by Cabot Performance Materials in Boyertown were absorbed by […]