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Donora: Earth Day roots trace back to a killer ‘fluoride fog’
The Donora Smog that killed residents of a Pennsylvania town in 1948 was the first in a series of environmental disasters that led to today’s environmental consciousness. Every now and then, something reminds David N. Taylor of how much more environmentally conscious the nation has become since the 1940s and 1950s. Sometimes it happens during […]
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Cressona council enters fluoride fray
CRESSONA – Another municipality entered the fight over fluoride Monday when Cressona borough council voted to ask Schuylkill Haven to submit a voter referendum on its decision to stop adding the chemical to its water supply. Earlier this year, Schuylkill Haven borough council voted 4-3 to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water. The Schuylkill […]
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Schuylkill Haven to reconsider decision to end water fluoridation
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – The borough will put its plans to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water on hold so borough council can conduct additional research and reconsider its decision. “Even though we’ve already voted 4-3 to remove the fluoride, I think we need to take the time to study this all a little more […]
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Fluoridated water may end in Schuylkill County
With Schuylkill Haven Borough Council’s decision last week to stop adding fluoride to its drinking water, municipal water fluoridation may soon be a thing of the past in Schuylkill County. The borough’s water authority was the only one in Schuylkill County to add fluoride to its water, according to a list compiled by ActionPA, a […]
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Schuylkill Haven to stop adding fluoride to water supply
SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – The borough will stop adding fluoride to its water supply after a motion to keep adding the chemical was defeated at Wednesday’s borough council meeting. “I think we’re doing an injustice by taking it out for our young people,” council President Marlin W. Berger Jr. said. Marlin Berger, who was the only […]
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Donora: A temperature inversion sets the stage for the Donora Smog of 1948
Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Today in 1948, a stifling yellow smog descended on the industrial mill town of Donora, Pa. It blanketed the town until Oct. 31st, when it was finally dispersed by rain. By then, […]
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Pennsylvania: DEP investigating chemical cloud at Allegheny Ludlum plant
The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating an accident Monday afternoon at the Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corp. in Washington County that resulted in the release of a yellow, toxic chemical cloud outside the plant. The DEP said that an overhead crane malfunctioned and could not remove a stainless steel plate from a 10,000-gallon vat […]
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‘Most Wanted’ backs new push to ID dead girl
America’s Most Wanted is filming in New Jersey today, as part of stepped-up efforts to identify a girl whose charred skeletal remains were found in a wooded area of Monmouth County in 2005. In Trenton, state and local police will distribute fliers with pictures of what the girl may have looked like. This week, the […]
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Wind Gap crash may promote more thinking about fluoridation
The whole country was concerned over the crash of a tanker truck full of hydrofluoric acid near Wind Gap, causing the evacuation of thousands. Our daughter called from Tennessee to make sure we were all right after it was a top news item there. My reaction, once I learned there was no significant spill of […]
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10 hospitalized over refinery vapors
Ten Sunoco contractors were taken to hospitals for evaluation yesterday after acid vapor escaped at the oil company’s South Philadelphia refinery. Seven went to Methodist Hospital in South Philadelphia; the others were taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, police said. None of the injuries were life-threatening, police said. Thomas Golembeski, spokesman for […]
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