PENSACOLA, Fla. – Documents show companies sharing liability for pollution from a defunct fertilizer plant avoided expensive groundwater cleanup after presenting skewed or incomplete data to federal regulators, a newspaper reported Tuesday. As a result, arsenic, lead and other toxic chemicals may have seeped into Escambia County’s drinking water and will remain in an aquifer […]
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Lacking common sense
The fluoridation of Palm Beach County’s water became a fait accompli when county commissioners approved a measure calling for fluoride to be added to the county’s water supply. This newspaper actively called for a no-vote on the matter, however, commissioner’s voted 4-2 to approve adding what amounts to toxic waste to the water system. Commissioner’s […]
Palm Beach County water to get fluoride
WEST PALM BEACH — Within about a year, the county’s 400,000 water consumers will be sipping small doses of what some call a tooth-decay salve and others say is a government-endorsed poison. After about four hours of listening to county staff and county residents, medical experts and college professors, county commissioners voted 4-2 Tuesday to […]
Pinellas joins the flow, adds fluoride
CLEARWATER – After decades of resisting one of the most recognized trends in preventing tooth decay, Pinellas County relented Tuesday and agreed to add fluoride to the bulk of the county’s water supply. County commissioners voted 6-1 in favor of fluoridating water that serves more than 600,000 of the county’s residents. St. Petersburg, Dunedin, Gulfport […]
A debate in ‘Fluorida’?
Dear All, According to the article in today’s Sun-Sentinel which comes out of Palm Beach County, ‘Fluorida’ (the poison state), the “Officials plan for fluoride debate”. However there is one little snagg, we know that the officials have already made up their mind, and no matter what transpires in this “debate” they are going to […]
Palm Beach County commissioners to vote on fluoridation
Patricia Moreell of Boca Raton has been fighting fluoride for a dozen years. Twelve years ago, she recalled, she appeared before the Palm Beach County Commission to speak against fluoridating the water supply that serves the unincorporated area – including West Boca Raton and West Delray Beach. Fluoride has long been considered beneficial to teeth. […]
Fluoridation: What’s Being Ignored
For fifty-five years, the promotion of water fluoridation was justified by the theory that fluoride, incorporated into tooth enamel during childhood, would result in teeth resistant to decay. This prior dogma was conclusively swept away three years ago by the same authorities that long declared the theory “scientifically undebatable.” Its import was barely noted in […]
Piney Point: An ecological powder keg
The defunct Piney Point fertilizer plant is a disaster in the making. The 700 million gallons of acidic water in the gypsum storage stack threatens to break through the walls and spill into Tampa Bay. Even if the square mound’s walls of fine, white, packed gypsum hold, rains threaten to push the water up and […]
Study to Address Cancer, Bone Problems, & Other Health Concerns Near Coronet Phosphate
PLANT CITY – Carl Crowell isn’t sure what caused his prostate cancer, and he can’t say why many of his neighbors have been stricken with other forms of the disease. Public health agencies don’t know either. But they are trying to determine whether pollution from a phosphate plant and old landfills could be linked to […]
Piney Point: Bending the rules at Piney Point, a $140-million mess.
The earthen embankment containing the Piney Point waste has suffered from structural problems requiring patching with gravel. (2003, Times Archive) [ CERRI, LARA | St. Petersburg Times ] The warning signs were clear: The Piney Point fertilizer plant was headed for disaster. State regulators knew in 1995 that the owner, Mulberry Corp., was struggling. If […]