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Skawina Aluminum Factory to be Closed Because of Pollution
As it has no filters at all, the enterprise, situated near Cracow, ”emits into the environment more than 1,700 t of pure fluorine, of which more than 800t finds its way into the environment in the most dangerous form, hydrogen fluoride”. This is the reason for the particularly high incidence of inflammation of the respiratory […]
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[Amount of fluoride in the teeth of the inhabitants of the high plateaus of Madagascar].
Article in French; no abstract. *Online at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7342897
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New Menace in Brazil’s ‘Valley of Death’ Strikes at Unborn
CUBATAO, Brazil, Sept. 19 – The already distressed atmosphere of this city has now become filled with alarm over the discovery of greatly accelerated rates of stillbirths and fetuses with ghastly deformities. One of Latin America’s largest petrochemical centers and one of the most polluted communities on earth, Cubatao rests atop coastal lowlands intersected by […]
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The St. Regis Syndrome
Long before Canada or the United States existed, Mohawks fished, hunted, trapped and farmed those islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that are now known as the St. Regis Akwesasne Indian Reserve. But since 1959 a plague has fallen on their land, killing their livestock, destroying their agriculture, ripping apart the very fabric of […]
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Fluoride Reduction in Community Water Supplies
Fluoride Reduction in Community Water Supplies A 92-page report prepared for the state of South Carolina, Department of Health & Environmental Control, Water Supply Division. Volume One – 1980. Excerpts: Abstract Forty-three community water supplies located along the east coast of South Carolina contain fluoride concentrations which exceed the limit established by law. During the […]
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Fluoride Pollution at Akwesasne Reservation
James Thompson pulls open the barbed wire gate leading to a grassy pasture and, with two mongrel dogs at his heels, steps inside to inspect his 50 head of Hereford cattle, all dying slowly from fluoride poisoning. His herd stands in minature; stunted, only waist-high. Calves are sometimes stillborn. The cows, after four years, can’t […]
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$750,000 Given In Child’s Death In Fluoride Case
A State Supreme Court jury awarded $750,000 yesterday to the parents of a 3year-old Brooklyn boy who, on his first trip to the dentist in 1974, was given a lethal dose of FLUORIDE at a city dental clinic and then ignored for nearly five hours in the waiting rooms of a pediatric clinic and Brookdale […]
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Eastalco Aluminum Sued Over Fluoride Emissions
Wearing quilted jackets, string ties and suspenders, the dairy farmers who sat in a Frederick County courtroom last week are not anyone’s image of political activists. But they are part of a new group of environmentalists: those who claim that industrial pollution damages their livelihoods as well as the quality of their lives. The dairy […]
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Tons of Fluoride Emitted in 3 Florida Counties
Manatee, Hillsborough and Polk Counties suffer four times the fluoride air pollution burdens which apparently have caused acute fluorosis of cattle in Maryland as reported by the Washington Post in an article published Saturday in the Herald-Tribune. The impacts of the Florida pollution, however, have been carefully concealed by the phosphate companies from whose mills […]
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Sick Cows, Human Fears in Maryland County
BUCKEYSTOWN, Md. – Five years ago, Pat Zimmerman, a husky woman in broken down galoshes and wornout blue jeans, opened her barn door to let her prize Holsteins in for milking. Only a few of the cows stood at the door. The rest stood bawling at the end of the lane. Pat went out to […]
United States, Maryland Aluminum Industry