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Department of Commerce sues Alcoa for $750,000
February 19,1999. ALCOA Fined $750,000 by Commerce Department For Illegal Chemical Shipments of Potassium fluoride and Sodium fluoride. — The Commerce Department’s Under Secretary for Export Administration, William A. Reinsch, imposed a civil penalty of $750,000 on Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA) for 100 violations of U.S. export regulations involving shipments of potassium fluoride and […]
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ALCOA’s $1 million fine for shipping fluoride chemicals that could be used for chemical weapons
See full Federal Register report Recommended Decision and Order On Friday, February 26, 1999, the Federal Register published the Decision and Order issued by the Under Secretary for Export Administration, Bureau of Export Administration, United States Department of Commerce (BXA) on February 19, 1999 (64 FR 9471). However, the Recommended Decision and Order of the […]
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Piketon waste a disposal headache
The U.S. Department of Energy wants ideas about how more than 700,000 tons of depleted uranium being stored at atomic fuel plants in Ohio and Kentucky can be converted into more stable, environmentally friendly forms. The waste has been accumulating since the 1950s at the former federal atomic fuel plant at Piketon, Ohio, 65 miles […]
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Ludwik Gross, a Trailblazer in Cancer Research, Dies at 94
Dr. Ludwik Gross, who influenced cancer research by showing that viruses could cause cancers in animals, died on Monday at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He was 94 and lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The cause was stomach cancer, said his daughter, Dr. Augusta H. Gross. Dr. Gross won an Albert […]
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Campaign to protect creek has few allies
A state DEP official, two counties and phosphate companies oppose protected status for the waterway. For such a small stream, Horse Creek is giving the state Department of Environmental Protection a big headache. The sandy-bottomed rivulet flows 40 miles south through Hardee and DeSoto counties, draining parts of Polk, Manatee and Hillsborough until it joins […]
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TECO inventory tallies up toxins
Tampa Electric Co. says the amounts of toxic chemicals its power plants released into the environment last year pose no health risks – although some environmental groups dispute that. The information reported by TECO marks the first year utilities have been required to file a Toxics Release Inventory to the Environmental Protection Agency. The report, […]
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Beryllium producer rejects meeting with activists
The Brush Wellman beryllium company says it will not meet with environmental activists who want to discuss why workers at the firm’s plant outside Elmore continue to contract an often-fatal lung disease. Brush Wellman has told Ohio Citizen Action, the state’s largest environmental activist group, that there was no reason to meet and, furthermore, the […]
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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 […]
United States, Missouri Oil Refineries