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DuPont to pay $1.1 million for 1997 spill
The DuPont chemical plant in western Louisville will pay $1.1 million to settle a federal Clean Air Act complaint stemming from a major spill of dangerous hydrogen fluoride six years ago. Half the money will be paid as a civil penalty, with the rest going toward eight local projects, including a $71,000 “green buffer zone” […]
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Clearing the air in Kentucky
DuPont is to pay $550,000 in civil penalties and perform eight Supplemental Environmental Projects (‘SEPs’) in a proposed settlement valued at $552,000 for Clean Air Act violations that involved a chemical release from its fluoroproducts plant in Louisville, KY in May 1997. The SEPs include providing emergency response equipment and training for local emergency planning […]
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Four cities decide to stop fluoridation in South Korea
Water fluoridation which has been practiced for over 20 years without any consent from citizens, is now put on the brake in South Korea. Recently, the four city councils -Chongju, Pohang, Gwacheon, Uiwang- decided to stop the fluoridation of public water supplies, cutting the whole budget needed for it. The addition of artificial fluoride into […]
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Well Testing Around Coronet To Begin
PLANT CITY – Health officials will be knocking on doors this week asking residents for permission to test their wells in areas near Coronet Industries. A survey of the area today revealed that there are between 75 and 90 private wells within a 1/4 mile radius of the phosphate processing plant. About 30 to 45 […]
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Plant City Officials Blast Regulators Over Coronet
PLANT CITY – City leaders lambasted regulatory officials Monday for not notifying the public of problems at Coronet Industries, a phosphate processor with a history of environmental lapses. The four commissioners present at Monday’s city commission meeting voiced serious reservations about enforcement operations and the lack of notification, especially since two weeks ago commissioners were […]
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‘Curb emissions or face penalty’
New Delhi, July 29: The Government today warned cement, iron and steel, and thermal power plants against flouting environmental norms. The industrial units, both in public and private sector, have been asked to furnish a bank guarantee as an expression of their commitment to work toward a cleaner environmental norms. In a three-hour-long review held […]
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Campaigners fight to keep Staffordshire’s water fluoride-free
Anti-fluoride campaigners are preparing to go to war for the fourth time in as many decades in a bid to keep Staffordshire’s water supplies free of the chemical. Stafford’s Protect Our Water campaign plans to fight proposed Government changes to the Water Bill which would force companies to add fluoride to public supplies if told […]
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Coronet Development Has Plant City Asking Questions
PLANT CITY – Commissioners, who less than a month ago were on the verge of approving the city’s largest housing development, will have a chance to ask how they could have come so far yet know so little. City officials said they were reassured by state and county regulatory agencies that it’s safe to build […]
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Research group presses fast food industry for facts on packaging
Is there a C8-related chemical wrapped around your cheeseburger? With the PFOA family of manufacturing chemicals under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a Washington, D.C.-based scientific research group thinks consumers have a right to know the answer. The Teflon-related chemical C8 has been a topic of interest in the Mid-Ohio Valley since it […]
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Coronet Hot Line Set Up For Tips
PLANT CITY – Investigators formed a multiagency task force and set up a hot line Thursday to probe allegations that Coronet Industries workers were ordered to dump hazardous waste and deceive government inspectors. Authorities said they hope residents will come forward with any information they have about the phosphate processor. Members of the U.S. Environmental […]
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