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Keysville air quality to be monitored
The state department of Environmental Regulation will put monitoring equipment in the Keysville area to test air quality there, residents were told Friday night. Dr. Rick Garrity, district manager of DER’s office in Tampa, told about a dozen Keysville residents that the mobile air monitoring equipment would be available in early April for about three […]
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30 Exposed to Corrosive Gas Monitored for Uranium Peril
GORE, Okla., Jan. 9 – Thirty workers who were exposed to a corrosive radioactive gas here will be closely monitored for several weeks to see if they suffer any permanent health effects, according to a nuclear radiation expert who is following their progress. The expert, Dr. Carl Bogardus, who is director of radiation therapy at […]
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Radioactive Material Leaks into Air for Three Weeks
PIKETON, Ohio – Radioactive material used to enrich uranium for nuclear reactors leaked for three weeks from a U.S. Department of Energy plant before being detected, but the company said Sunday that there were no abnormal levels in the air. The leak of 108.8 pounds of uranium hexafluoride was discovered Friday, said Tim Matchett of […]
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Lethal Acid is Product of Chemical that Leaked
The chemical that leaked at a uranium-processing plant in Oklahoma on Saturday, resulting in the death of one worker and injury to at least 32 others, breaks down on contact with moisture into a substance that is extremely dangerous even in small amounts, according to Federal officials. The chemical, uranium hexafluoride, is a key material […]
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How much fluoride is too much?
The Environmental Protection Agency has stirred the hornet’s nest of fluoridation by seeking to double the maximum allowable amount of the mineral in the nation’s water supply – a move that is drawing sharp criticism as a possible health hazard. “I don’t think the law really allows them to do this,” says Jackie Warren, a […]
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EPA Recommends Raising Fluoride Limits
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 — The Environmental Protection Agency today proposed a new standard that would double the maximum permissible level of fluoride in the nation’s drinking water supplies. The new maximum, four milligrams to a liter of water, is well above levels that can cause dental fluorosis, which results in discoloration, mottling and pitting of […]
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Cleanup for Brazil’s Valley of Death
Sao Paulo — For years, the area around the Brazilian town of Cubatao — with 23 petrochemical companies operating 111 plants in the industrial heart of the state of Sao Paulo — has been referred to as Vale da Morte, or the “Valley of Death,” because of the high levels of air, water and soil […]
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NRDC: “No Justification” for Relaxing Fluoride’s Maximum Contaminant Level
WASHINGTON, June 20 /PRN/ — In a statement to the Center For Health Action, Jacqueline Warren, senior counsel for the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, expressed serious reservations about the legalities and evidence for proposing a 4-parts-per-million (ppm) standard for fluoride. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency […]
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In Acrid Brazilian Factory Zone, A Fear of Disaster
CUBATAO, Brazil – The factories on this swampland have turned the nearby town into a place of superlatives: in Cubatao, pollutants in the rain have reached some of the highest levels known in the world; the air is considered unfit for humans on a record number of days, and more cases of cancer, stillbirths and […]
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Brazil: “No More Cubataos”
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept. 7 – “No more Cubataos” is now the war cry of Brazilian environmentalists, who insist that Brazil’s main petrochemical center and most polluted city not become a model for other industrial districts. The environmental movement is particularly strong in Cotia, 18 miles from Sao Paulo, and in Araucaria, 12 miles from […]
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