The Texas Sierra Club on Friday disputed the findings of a CITGO-hired botanist who said that toxic gas did not escape into the neighborhoods after the May 12 refinery explosion because vegetation in the area wasn’t damaged. Neil Carman, the Sierra Club’s clean air program director, said he found lots of brown plants. After hearing […]
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Scientists Urge Governor Whitman to Take Action to Fluoridate all New Jersey Water Supply
New York, NY, April 9, 1997 — Scientists and physicians from the American Council on Science and Health have urged New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman to vigorously promote community water fluoridation in New Jersey. “Fluoridation remains the safest, most effective, and most economic public-health measure to prevent tooth decay and to improve oral health […]
Fluoridation: A Triumph of Science Over Propaganda
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]