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Florida Power makes emissions report
Florida Power Corp. Friday reported the amounts of toxic chemicals its plants released into the environment last year. This is the first year utilities have been required to file a Toxics Release Inventory to the Environmental Protection Agency. The report, which manufacturing plants have been required to file since 1986, looks at 650 chemicals. “It […]
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Niagara Mohawk plants among New York’s top polluters
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Niagara Mohawk power plants spewed more than 5.78 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment in 1998, according to a report the utility filed with the federal government. The toxic emissions, 97 percent of which came from the Huntley and Dunkirk coal-fired power plants near Buffalo, establish Niagara Mohawk as one […]
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Local Industries Release Figures on ‘Worst-Case’ Scenarios
Treading lightly on a delicate subject, leaders of industry and safety agencies disclosed details Tuesday about potential but unlikely chemical leaks that could threaten everyone in the St. Louis region. There has never been a massive vapor-release accident here and probably never will be, they emphasized. But a federal rule requires reporting worst-case scenario risks […]
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Power plants proving worst violators of pollutants
DENVER – Utility companies for the first time must report emissions of toxic chemicals and power plants are proving the worst violators, according to Toxic Release Inventory figures. The releases at each of the Public Service Co. of Colorado’s seven power plants dwarf most of the emissions documented in last year’s Environmental Protection Agency report. […]
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BGE may be Maryland’s largest polluter
Two of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.’s power plants released more than 14 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air last year, likely making it Maryland’s top polluter. The amount dwarfs the figures of the top polluters of 1997, the Westvaco paper products company in Western Maryland and Millennium Inorganics, a Baltimore chemical company. […]
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Utilities prepare for bad environmental news
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – An electric utility went on the offense Thursday, anticipating unfavorable public response to data showing significant pollution from coal-fired power plants. American Electric Power sent representatives to news organizations to explain that the utility will report substantial levels of hydrochloric acid in the Toxic Release Inventory to be issued Friday. “We are […]
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Gov. Guinn signs Clark County fluoridation bill
CARSON CITY — Gov. Kenny Guinn has signed a bill requiring fluoridation of the water system in Clark County, but he wants the public to vote on the issue. The governor has asked the Legislature to send him a “trailer bill” that will allow Clark County voters to have a say on a ballot question […]
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Poison cloud fears grow as Allies bomb chemical sites
NATO’S sustained destruction of Serbian oil dumps and chemical depots has increased fears of an environmental disaster in the Balkans. In northern Greece, people are stockpiling bottled water and canned food after warnings that the bombardment had released poisonous dioxins into the atmosphere. ‘Many wondered whether the entire province should be evacuated en masse,’ a […]
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Senate OKs water fluoridation bill
CARSON CITY — Although it died in the wake of harsh public criticism two years ago, a bill to put fluoride in public water systems serving Southern Nevada’s larger cities scooted through the Senate Wednesday afternoon with only a handful of members opposing it. The bill, passed by the Assembly earlier this month, calls for […]
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Fluoride, A Missing Ingredient
Barker Hamill’s children take fluoride pills every other day. The reason: Morrisville, Pa., where they live, does not have fluoridated water. ”Our pediatrician recommended taking them,” Mr. Hamill. ”There’s no lack of evidence that it helps to prevent tooth decay.” Mr. Hamill is not just any proponent of fluoridation. He is also chief of the […]
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