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Is this your hood? Nairobi’s estate where residents have brown teeth
By Hudson Gumbihi | 3 years ago Discoloring teeth Many residents in Mihang’o and Utawala area of Nairobi have discolouring teeth because of drinking borehole water, according to their MCA Paul Kiguathi Kadosi. Residents in the area have for many years relied on underground water fetched from underground sources. Scientists say underground water contains fluoride […]
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Crowther: CDC focus
Many of us are celebrating the fact “science-based” is no longer a banned phrase in our new national administration. Not surprisingly, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky, has an impressive background in her science-based profession. She served previously as the chief of the Division of Infectious […]
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Piney Point: Florida lawmakers budget $3 million to clean up Piney Point and help “put it behind us once and for all”
Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility that has been leaking potentially toxic water in the Tampa Bay area, may soon be cleaned up and heading to permanent closure. On Wednesday, Florida state senators passed an amendment that would allocate $3 million to clean up and safely dispose of the wastewater that, for decades, has […]
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Piney Point: Florida’s latest regulatory nightmare exposes a glaring national failure
As environmental regulators and politicians nervously saluted efforts to prevent the catastrophic release of millions of gallons of wastewater from the aging Piney Point phosphogypsum wastewater storage pond near Tampa, Fla., this week, there was scarce little talk of how we got here. Or of how we’ll prevent similar disasters moving forward. Much like the […]
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Can data prove to be the nemesis of India’s polluting industries?
Only if pollution boards can get industrial units to comply with a new tribunal order. Representative image: Smoke billows from a factory chimney during smoggy morning in Ajmer on November 2, 2020. | AFP/HimanshuSharma In a powerful ruling that could increase transparency and thus, industry compliance, India’s National Green Tribunal has directed all pollution […]
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Ministry of Health flies blind on fluoridation – by Fluoride Free New Zealand
If ever there was legislation being advocated by the New Zealand government, that on growing scientific evidence could harm mental development in young people, it is the Health (Fluoridation of Drinking Water) Amendment Bill now before parliament. With fluoridation, the ministry is obsessed with dental health and appears to be almost totally blind to the […]
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Toxic waste buried at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, former staff say
Investigators are looking into claims highly toxic waste has been buried in unmapped sites at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Tiwai Point. File photo Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon This includes spent cell liner (SCL) waste that contains cyanide and toxic fluoride, and is banned from being buried untreated in both the US and Australia. The […]
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Piney Point: What you need to know on Monday about evacuations, wastewater dangers
Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection approved the pumping of wastewater into the Tampa Bay ecosystem from a reservoir at Piney Point – a former phosphate plant in Manatee County. A leak in the liner of the reservoir has caused a partial breach in one of the containment walls and officials hope that […]
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Guwahati’s water woes
Excerpt … As a significant section of the Guwahatians has no access to piped water, they have to bank on their own bore-wells. But in the past few years in many localities of the city, such as Christian Basti, parts of Anil Nagar, Nabin Nagar, Ulubari, Lachit Nagar, etc., to name a few, the bore-wells […]
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Why providing alternatives to SF6 and other greenhouse gases is important for carbon reduction initiatives
More companies have committed to renewable energy, energy efficiency, and electric vehicle adoption. The urgency to act on climate change has never been greater, and, in the absence of global regulation, companies are voluntarily stepping up to fill the gap. As of the publication of this blog post, more than 1000 companies have set public […]
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