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Wastewater Dump Seen As `Lesser Of Two Evils’
PLANT CITY – Call it catastrophic deja vu. Four years ago, state regulators faced an unprecedented crisis when millions of gallons of toxic wastewater threatened to burst through the berms of an abandoned phosphate plant at Piney Point. In March, when Coronet Industries ceased operations, they were confronted again with brimming ponds contaminated with cadmium, […]
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Wyoming Institute for Disabilities Helps Brighten Kids’ Smiles
The Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND) at the University of Wyoming is collaborating with the State Dental Office and other oral health experts and stakeholders to brighten the smiles of preschool children across the state. The “Healthy Teeth, Healthy Children” initiative is funded by a three year, $195,000 grant from the U.S. Health Resources and […]
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Council backs ‘home rule’ right
SPRINGFIELD – The City Council last night unanimously approved a nonbinding resolution supporters said aimed at retaining the city’s right to decide whether to fluoridate its water. The bid to maintain “home rule” targeted a state House bill on oral health that would require all cities and towns of at least 5,000 people to add […]
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Fluoridated Pittsburgh: Highest rate of Tooth Decay in State
Myles Lenger, 7, knew he was due for a dentist’s visit. A free dental screening Saturday at Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side proved him right. Hygienist Lisa Fabrizio found a cavity when she checked the second-grader from Monongahela, Washington County. Myles was among more than 400 children who got a free checkup […]
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Fluoride debate makes a return
SPRINGFIELD – Debate about fluoridating water has been part of the public discourse nationwide for decades and the issue will resurface at City Hall Monday. The City Council will consider a nonbinding resolution about fluoride at its 7:30 p.m. meeting in City Council Chambers that praises Springfield’s fluoride-free water supply. Supporters say fluoride prevents tooth […]
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Coronet Battle Returns To Court
PLANT CITY – Things have been pretty quiet at Coronet Industries since the company ceased making a chicken feed supplement nearly a year ago. But the shuttered phosphate processing plant was fairly bustling last month when the excavator, the dump truck and the industrial-sized trash bin appeared near Pond 6. The scooping of soil commenced […]
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Derailing fish health
Public health was a valid concern Monday when 13 cars of an 84-car Norfolk Southern train derailed from the tracks in East Deer beside Freeport Road and plunged into the Allegheny River. As a result of the mishap, two railroad tanker cars carrying hazardous chemicals landed upside down in the Allegheny River near the New […]
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Acid spill downtown sends 16 to hospitals
A truck traveling through Phoenix leaked more than 110 gallons of hydrofluorosilic acid on Friday, closing a significant part of downtown and keeping residents inside. Sixteen people – the truck’s driver, 11 police officers and four civilians – were taken to hospitals for evaluation because they may have stepped into the liquid. Three firefighters also […]
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After 60 years, fluoridation controversy’s still hot
Back in 1964, when the fictional General Ripper launched World War Three because he was convinced the Commies were polluting his precious bodily fluids, opposition to water fluoridation was generally considered the exclusive province of right-wing wackos. More than 40 years later, the anti-fluoride forces are still on the march–but they’re a lot different. They’re […]
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Toxic gas leak
EAST DEER — About 200 township residents evacuated Monday when a derailed tanker leaked a toxic gas into the Allegheny River might not be allowed to return to their homes until sometime Wednesday. Anhydrous hydrogen fluoride gas leaking from the derailed, overturned and submerged tanker can, if released into the air, cause eye, nose and […]
United States, Pennsylvania Miscellaneous