SPOKANE, Wash – Kaiser Aluminum Corp. will appeal a $388,000 fine by the state Department of Ecology for alleged sloppy operation of air pollution-control equipment at its Mead smelter, officials say. Operation and maintenance problems were responsible for more than 800 pounds a day of pollutants escaping from the aluminum smelting plant northeast of Spokane, […]
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Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
Tajik Aluminum – Environmental Disaster in Central Asia
Condensed text: The whole world knows about the tragedy of the Aral Sea, the unhealing wound of Uzbekistan. . . . This disaster has now been joined by a new one, this time in the southern part of the republic. Years ago the Tajik Aluminum Plant (TAZ) was built near Tajikistan’s border with Uzbekistan. . […]
Proposed Cyanide, Fluoride Standards for Aluminum Production Waste Published
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A tighter treatment standard for cyanide and a reinstated standard for fluoride are included in a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule on aluminum waste set for publication July 12. The agency said it is not proposing to require the use of any particular treatment technology to achieve the standards, which reflect the levels achieved by […]
ALCOA Warns of Cancer Risk
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Aluminum manufacturer Alcoa is warning thousands of past and present employees that they may face a greater risk than previously believed of developing lung or bladder cancer. Recent industry studies, including one by Canadian aluminum producer Alcan, found that exposure to coal tar pitch used in aluminum-smelting may be more likely to […]
Department of Commerce sues Alcoa for $750,000
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February 19,1999. ALCOA Fined $750,000 by Commerce Department For Illegal Chemical Shipments of Potassium fluoride and Sodium fluoride. — The Commerce Department’s Under Secretary for Export Administration, William A. Reinsch, imposed a civil penalty of $750,000 on Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for 100 violations of U.S. export regulations involving shipments of potassium fluoride and […]
Brazilian Communities tackle Aluminum industry
Brazilian communities affected by the aluminum industry gathered in the city of Sao Luiz in the northern state of Maranhao at the end of March to discuss the environmental and health impacts of bauxite mining and aluminum refining. The gathering was organized by the Brazilian NGO Carajas Forum which monitors the social and environmental impact […]
Speaking out against aluminum giants
More than 60 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) came together in this northern Brazilian city to discuss the impact on human health and the environment of bauxite mining and the production of aluminum by multinational consortiums in the country’s Amazon jungle region. Cancer and a long list of other occupational hazards, the contamination of waterways, air pollution, […]
Shattered Dreams in the Town that Cannot Smile
ONE hundred and twenty-five miles south of the Arctic circle the first snow falls in early September and can stay until June. The temperature often plummets to -40C. Seven months into the bleak 10-month winter there is little to smile about in Nadvortsy. But the weather is not the reason for the town’s grim expression. […]
Fluoride Pollution from Aluminum Smelter in Kurri Kurri Australia
Kurri and Weston residents have made a ‘private eye’ to record industrial pollution in the area. Three people spent six weeks and used donated materials to build the mobile fluoride monitor. It will be used to independently check pollution from Kurri’s aluminium smelter and a newly opened aluminium dross factory. The residents have also bought […]
Russians Who Give A Damn
Excerpt: A cloud of dark metallic smoke filled the summer sky as Andrei Kozlovich talked to a compressor operator in an aluminium factory in Nadvoitsy, near the Finnish border. “To sue the factory we need a complainant,” Kozlovich shouted to Lyudmila Kuzina over the din of the machinery. “I want that person to be you.” […]