TARPON SPRINGS – Two diverse neighbors share a small, peaceful cove along the Anclote River: a subdivision with a handful of homes and a defunct chemical plant with buried hazardous waste. A recently released report shows some contaminants from the 160-acre Stauffer Chemical Plant, closed for 13 years, may have seeped into Meyers Cove, shared […]
A two-year battle against the federal government ended in victory for a scientist fired from the Environmental Protection Agency after raising health concerns about fluoride. Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich ordered that William L. Marcus be returned to his $ 87,000-a-year job at EPA and be paid back wages, legal costs and a $ 50,000 […]
In a precedent-setting ruling, U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Robert B. Reich has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reinstate toxicologist Dr. William L. Marcus. Labor found the EPA guilty of falsifying employment records, discrimination, and retaliation against an employee whistleblower. It also granted Marcus the largest compensatory damage award ever upheld […]
Lead levels in town water have decreased significantly since town officials stopped adding fluoride, commissioners reported at Wednesday’s meeting. They also voted to officially ban fluoridation. Fluoride itself does not produce high lead levels, but fluoride must be introduced along with fluorosilicic acid, and town officials believe that the acid washes lead from pipe soldering, […]
The state Department of Public Health fluoridated the water at the Wrentham and Belchertown state schools for the mentally retarded in 1947 – four years before a US public health recommendation and a state law allowing local communities to fluoridate. In the wake of other experiments at the state schools that apparently were conducted without […]
Excerpts (see full Bulletin): At first glance, the list of 54 individual chemicals in the table on page 3, the Australia Group List (AGL), looks rather different from the schedules of chemicals set out in the Annex on Chemicals of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), where the different schedules contain both chemical-warfare agents and precursors, […]
Fluoride supplements designed to prevent tooth decay in children should be taken off the market until they are proven safe and effective, an Essex County legislator said yesterday. At a press conference in Trenton, Assemblyman John Kelly (R-Essex) released a letter he has sent to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Washington saying the […]
Abstract: Fluoride was measured in samples of lichen collected in 1990 from 68 sites on the island of Hawaii; in addition, fluoride levels were measured in 8 rainfall samples collected at the same time. The levels of fluoride in the lichens range from 6 to 332 ?g g?1, which are similar to the levels measured […]
LAKELAND – Gases escaping from fertilizer company cooling ponds have been blamed for injuring orange trees and making cows teeth fall out after they eat tainted grass. But a Polk County company has invented a new way to recover a valuable commodity from the ponds, which DuPont says it is ready to buy. What’s more, […]
THE BUSTER BROWN shoe store on Collinsville Avenue in East St. Louis had a wonderful machine where I would stand with my feet, in their shoes, inserted beneath an oblong box, like a low, enclosed lectern, called a Fluoroscope, which shot X-rays into my toes, gonads, liver and brain and let me see clearly what […]
