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OSHA cited Citgo for violations
Federal regulators cited Citgo Refining and Chemicals LP in Corpus Christi for allegedly exposing workers to the release of toxic chemicals. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed Citgo pay $236,500 in penalties for allegedly committing workplace violations resulting from a “catastrophic” release of hydrocarbon and hydrofluoric acid from the facility. OSHA began its investigation […]
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New report from NH Dental Society pushes fluoridation
New Hampshire elementary school parents and children got some good news at the end of last year when the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced the release of the “Healthy Smiles-Healthy Growth” survey, which showed a marked improvement in dental health for third-graders from five years ago. School-based programs in cities including […]
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Española: City Receives Well Funds
The city of Española has received $500,000 in federal funding that could help restore two wells to working order. This is the first time the city had received funding from the Community Development Program since 1996, when $187,500 was awarded to the city for the construction of a domestic violence shelter, Grants Administrator Lupita DeHerrera […]
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Alabama: Update on PFC contamination on North Alabama farms
Our firm continues to investigate claims on behalf of Alabama farmers and other property owners affected by contaminated sewage sludge in fertilizer in Franklin, Lawrence, and Morgan counties. As we have reported, sewage sludge used as fertilizer was spread over approximately 5000 acres of farmland and contained elevated levels of perfluorochemicals (PFCs) – specifically perfluorooctanoic […]
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Meet me at Starbucks: EPA’s secret rendezvous with 3M
The last we heard, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials had held a couple of days of closed-door meetings with folks from DuPont Co., listening to DuPont’s pitch against tougher regulation of perfluorinated chemicals like PFOA (C8) and PFOS. Now, it turns out that those meetings, held in October at EPA headquarters in Washington, were preceded […]
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Lebanon: Local club pushes putting fluoride back in water
A group of young women, most of whom have school-aged children or younger children at home, is mounting a campaign and beginning to ask questions about why the City of Lebanon is not putting fluoride in its water system. Tiffany Miller was the first to sound the alarm when she learned just last week that […]
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Lebanon: Continuing fluoridation in city water could cost $100K
Editor’s Note: Due to local interest in the subject of whether to once again add fluoride in Lebanon’s water supply, The Wilson Post will continue this series in the Wednesday, Jan. 20 edition. In future articles, The Post will look at what other cities do and will also look at the possible health risks of […]
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Southampton: Activists will contest the seats of fluoridation supporters
ANTI-fluoridation activists have launched a campaign to stop politicians who backed the Hampshire scheme being re-elected. They want to see anyone who supported plans to add the chemical to the tap water supplies of nearly 200,000 residents in and around Southampton booted out of office. The No F in Southampton campaign encourages voters to support […]
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Fluoridation plans stir debate in Walker
WALKER — The 1950s-era debate over fluoridation of municipal water supplies to fight tooth decay flared anew in Walker, where opponents called on the Board of Aldermen on Monday to reconsider an earlier decision to inject the chemical into the town water supply. After the procession of speakers had addressed the board, Mayor Bobby Font […]
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Southampton: Test chemicals in fluoride, demand protester
The anti-fluoride lobby is calling for fluoride to be licensed as a medicine in another bid to ban it from the nation’s tap water. Campaigners have lodged this latest complaint while they await the outcome of a judicial review on adding fluoride to tap water in Southampton, prompted by a resident who was against the […]
United Kingdom, England