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Duluth Mayor Wants Husky to Prove HF is Safest Choice
DULUTH, Minn. – Mayor Emily Larson wants Husky to prove that HF is the safest choice for use at its Superior refinery. “I believe our communities have not been made aware of the extent to which HF is dangerous, nor have we been given proof that safer alternatives are not viable,” Larson wrote in a […]
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$2.7 million and 180 acres: Lake Elmo settles with 3M
Lake Jane in Lake Elmo. The city announced it reached a settlement to end its lawsuit against 3M over pollutants the company made that were found in Lake Elmo groundwater. (file photo) After decades of contamination findings, lawsuits and finger-pointing, Lake Elmo and 3M have reached a resolution. The city announced it settled its […]
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Duluth: Events Saturday highlight climate, impacts of Husky explosion
A green energy summit in Duluth will be followed Saturday by a rally outside the Douglas County courthouse in Superior. Organizers of the rally noted it comes one year and a day after the Husky Energy oil refinery explosion that caused the evacuation of much of Superior. Northwoods 350, a group that professes a desire […]
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Minnesota health officials cut safety level of 3M pollutant in half
State officials have toughened up standards — again — for a chemical made by the 3M Co. found in drinking water. Officials with the Minnesota Department of Health on Wednesday said that the safe level for the chemical needs to be slashed almost in half, because of new scientific research. The new standards will have […]
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Brainerd: 40 years ago
The impartiality of the Governor’s Comm. on Fluoridation has been “hopelessly compromised” by hiring a pro-fluoridation dentist as a consultant, charged Jack Graham, special counsel to Brainerd in its 20-year fight against forced fluoridation of city water. * Original article, titled This Was Brainerd – Nov. 30, online at http://www.brainerddispatch.com/community/history/4535849-was-brainerd-nov-30 Print PDF
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Tapping into Minnesota’s fluoride rules
For the past year, Minnesota has been in step one of a fluoride rule revision. The Post Bulletin consulted the Minnesota Department of Health to see what changes for public water may be coming down the pipeline. What’s the amendment? The proposed amendment will lower the average concentration of fluoride in public water to 0.7 […]
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Tucson City Council votes to sue 3M over contaminated wells near Davis-Monthan
TUCSON, Ariz. – The Tucson City Council unanimously voted Wednesday night to sue 3M and other manufacturers over the contaminated wells near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The City of Tucson wants to take the Minnesota-based manufacturing company to court over the toxic chemicals that were found in wells near Davis-Monthan. The two contaminated wells were shut […]
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Ask Us: Fluoride levels, long a source of controversy, are low in Mankato water
Q: How much fluoride is there in Mankato’s water? A: The city’s Public Utilities Department, like a student who made the Honor Roll, is happy to share its water testing results. “Testing completed by the Minnesota Department of Health confirms that Mankato’s drinking water meets and exceeds all state and federal standards for high-quality water, […]
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Toxic Secrets: The town that 3M built – where kids are dying of cancer
Katie Jurek was 19 years old when she was told the osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, had returned. She could amputate her leg or die within three months. For the teenager with a contagious smile, love of fashion and a determined streak from the state of Minnesota in America’s upper mid-west, it was […]
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Twin Ports faces numerous chemical risks
For decades, the majority of the Twin Ports lived under the threat of a concentrated chlorine spill, which could have spread over 10 miles and sickened up to 128,000 people in an unlikely, though technically possible, worst-case scenario. Then in 2006, Western Lake Superior Sanitary District decided to do away with the risk altogether. “While […]
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