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Under the Volcano (Part II)
Old facilities such as Crown’s Pasadena refinery benefit from another provision in the law favorable to polluters. Plants in existence before the Texas Clean Air Act of 1971 were exempted from a permit requirement mandating that facilities use the best available controls to cut pollution. Only if these grandfathered facilities added significant new sources of […]
United States, Texas Oil Refineries -
Under The Volcano (Part I)
“By design, you know, you have these failures,” he says. As part of its agreement with the TNRCC, Crown put in a $1.3 million scrubber to attack the problem of excess sulfur emissions. Critics railed that the company was skirting other, costlier controls. But even Abraham concedes that Crown’s sulfur dioxide emissions are way down. […]
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A new danger confronts Assamese
While the attention of the public is focused on arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh, West Bengal and other places, fluorosis is quietly exacting its toll elsewhere in South Asia. For more than a decade, Assam has been in the limelight for its multiple insurgencies. Because of this almost exclusive focus on violence, a new danger confronting […]
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Proposed Bills Challenge fluoridation plans
FARMINGTON — Health officials are vigorously opposing two state lawmakers’ proposed amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act they claim would put a kink in their efforts to distribute fluoridated drinking water to each Davis County city. County Health Director Lewis R. Garrett said “late-in-the-game” legislation sponsored by Rep. Glenn Donnelson, R-North Ogden, and Rep. […]
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2 bills may halt water fluoridation
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is opposing two bills recently introduced into the 2002 legislative session that, if passed, would effectively prevent water fluoridation. HB158 would modify the Safe Drinking Water Act to prevent any substance from being added to public water supplies that has not been approved by the U.S. Food […]
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Green Party to Mount Challenge Against Fluoridation of School Milk
Green peer Lord Beaumont of Whitley is to lead a House of Lords debate on the allegedly “misleading, biased and scientifically questionable” information being given to parents of some British primary school children regarding fluoridated school milk. An incisive Green Party briefing entitled “Dental milk” and truth decay, to be issued this week, finds severe […]
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Officials Say Cleaning up Plant Site will take Years
Joette Nanney and her family got used to friends teasing them about living next to a nuclear-fuel plant. But in the 22 years that she and her husband and their three children lived across from the Westinghouse nuclear-fuel-rod processing plant in Hem atite, Nanney says none of them ever glowed in the dark. The facility […]
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Mandatory fluoridation bill defeated in Hawaii
Yesterday, the state House Committee on Health got an earful from folks who weren’t about to swallow the Department of Health’s fluoridation claims. In an often tumultuous hearing that lasted more than six hours, the panel heard citizens voice their disapproval of House Bill 2761, which related to community oral health and included the phrase: […]
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One third of fish species in Peace River may be history
The Peace River, which flows through the middle of Central Florida’s phosphate mining belt, has lost about a third of the fish species it once had, according to environmental scientist Thomas Fraser. Also, the types of fish now found in the Peace caused a scientist in 1986 to group it with the Alafia — a […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Madison County Board of Health backs fluoridation in Oneida
The Health Department board passed a resolution recently, acknowledging the public health benefits by the consumption of optimally fluoridated water and encouraging the city of Oneida to fluoridate its water supply. The board said that fluoridation improves dental health and is the most cost-effective method for improving dental health. President of the Madison County Board […]
United States, New York