Community water fluoridation (herein called simply “fluoridation”) is the precise adjustment of the concentration of the essential trace element fluoride in the public water supply to protect teeth and bones. In 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first city in the world to fluoridate its public water supply. Since then, communities throughout the United States […]
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Feds Probe Steel Plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the FBI are investigating possible criminal violations of pollution regulations at three local Allegheny Ludlum Corp. plants and facilities in Connecticut and Indiana. The grand jury investigation, which began last fall, involves allegations that the company failed to report violations of the Clean Water Act or filed incomplete and […]
Giunchigliani pushes fluoridation
CARSON CITY — Since 1989, the Governor’s Maternal and Child Health Advisory Board has pushed the idea that Nevada’s water supplies be fluoridated to prevent tooth decay, especially in children. Now the board has an ally in Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani, D-Las Vegas, who will sponsor a bill in the 1997 Legislature requiring fluoridation in all […]
Huge Tanks of Nuclear Waste Rusting Away
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PIKETON, Ohio – Federal officials are scratching their heads over 46,000 rusting steel cylinders containing depleted uranium that are stored here and at two other large nuclear installations. The cylinders, containing more than 1.1 billion pounds of uranium hexafluoride used to make atomic fuel, have been accumulating for nearly half a century at the Portsmouth […]
Phosphate industry lobbys to end ban on sale of gypsum by-product
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MULBERRY – They tower over the Central Florida landscape, looking like flat-topped mesas imported from the desert Southwest. And every year, the giant piles, or stacks, of phosphogypsum get a little bigger – 30 million tons bigger. That’s not good news to some people, who say the byproducts of phosphate mining pollute the air and […]
Boeing blames gas leak on use of wrong tank
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SEATTLE — An accidental release of toxic gas at a manufacturing plant last week that sickened about 120 people probably was caused by workers using the wrong tank for a procedure, Boeing Co. said yesterday. Boeing said in a statement that a preliminary investigation determined that the accident Friday morning occurred when workers transferred nitric […]
Poultry Products Produced by Mechanical Separation and Products In Which Such Poultry Products Are Used
SUMMARY: The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is amending the Federal poultry products inspection regulations to prescribe: a definition and standard of identity and composition for the poultry product that results from the mechanical separation and removal of most of the bone from skeletal muscle and other tissues of poultry carcasses and parts of […]
EPA sues Ludlum over wastewater
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday sued Allegheny Ludlum Corp., alleging that the steelmaker is dumping oil and wastewater into two local rivers and a third waterway in Connecticut. The EPA is asking a federal judge to order the steelmaker to comply with the Clean Water Act. The EPA alleges that: — Since July of […]
Phosphate mining legacy feared
The Florida phosphate industry figured prominently in the national media last week. And was, I am sure, not at all pleased to be the subject of so much attention – none of it favorable. U.S. News & World Report had a major article headed “Sinkholes and stacks,” illustrated with a dismal and dramatic photo of […]
Sinkholes and Stacks; Neighbors claim Florida’s Phosphate Mines are a Hazard
Betty Stancil remembers the day in 1986 when a giant dragline began ripping up the ground across the street, just 60 feet from her front door. Eight stories tall, blocking out the sun and swinging a bucket as big as her three-bedroom bungalow, the machine gouged up to 150 tons of earth with each pass. […]