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 […]
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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. […]
Animal poisoning raises controversy near Irish Aluminum Smelter
“I GOT all this equipment years ago and never thought I’d be using it for this,” Justin Ryan says as he takes a tape out of his camcorder. He has been using it to record the sick and dying animals on his farm and neighbouring farms near Askeaton, Co Limerick. Mr Ryan sent a copy […]
Chemical & Biological Weapons. Fluorine chemicals. 1995 UN Monitoring and Verification of Iraq’s Compliance.
Note from FAN: Section C, cited below, of the 1991 UN Security Council Resolution 687, “Invites Iraq to reaffirm unconditionally its obligations under the Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare, signed at Geneva on 17 June 1925, and to […]
Interview with EPA’s Dr. William Marcus on NTP’s Fluoride/Cancer Study
The following is an interview with Dr. William Marcus, Senior Science Advisor in EPA’s Office of Drinking Water, concerning the National Toxicology Program’s animal study on fluoride & cancer. The interview is with Dr. Gary Null, and was aired on Null’s radio show (program #310) on March 10, 1995. Marcus: When I got a hold of the contractor report […]
Torrance Residents Wary of Mobil Plan to Lessen Risk of Toxic Cloud
When walls start shaking and dishes rattle ominously, Clifford Heise hurries outside his Torrance home to stare at the southern sky. “If it’s red, you know it’s Mobil,” he says, “and you think, ‘Quick, which way is the wind blowing?’ ” For hundreds who live near the mammoth Mobil Oil Corp. refinery in Torrance, the […]
Defluoridation of drinking water with pottery: effect of firing temperature.
Abstract Excessive fluoride (F) in drinking water should be removed, but simple, inexpensive methods of fluoride removal are not readily available. This study examines the F(-)-binding capacity of clay and clayware, especially the effect of the firing temperature on the F(-)-binding process. A series of pots were made from ordinary potter’s clay and fired at […]
ALBANY: Crucial support for Albany fluoridation withers
A non-binding resolution from the Common Council and a word from the mayor did what Gen. Jack D. Ripper’s fictional takeover of a military base could not: They put an end to fluoridation, at least in Albany. A day after Mayor Jerry Jennings signaled his opposition to fluoridation and two days after aldermen voiced that […]
Ecological Russian Roulette
NADVOITSY, Russia – The children of this town learn early not to smile. When they do, they show a ghastly array of blackened, splintered, rotting stumps where milk-white teeth might have been. An environmental plague has struck this northern land of lakes, no longer pristine, and thinning pine forests. The children of Nadvoitsy are its […]