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Fluoride is on tap for San Antonio
After three divisive elections and decades of bitter debate, San Antonio begins fluoridating its drinking water next week finally shedding its distinction as one of the last large U.S. cities to shun the cavity-fighting mineral. The first shipment of the chemical known as fluorosilicic acid arrived in San Antonio by tanker truck Thursday. By next […]
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Two Texarkanas may add fluoride to drinking water
Texarkana citizens may be making fewer trips to the dentist in the near future, if city governments on both sides of the State Line decide to add fluoride to the drinking water. The issue was originally raised by Texarkana, Texas, Ward 3 Council Member Christie Adams. Other members of the council have followed suit with […]
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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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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 […]
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Crown chemical leak sends six to area hospitals
Six people were sent to the hospital for observation Tuesday evening when an operator at Crown Central Petroleum on Red Bluff opened a valve that contained a mixture of petroleum and hydrofluoric acid at approximately 5 p.m. Bruce Hicks, spokesman for Crown, said the six were transported as a precaution because they might have inhaled […]
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Bridges stay open, but on highest alert
The El Paso-Juárez international bridges are expected to remain open today after the initial U.S. military strikes Sunday against targets in Afghanistan. “We are still on the same alert status that we went on shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks,” U.S. Customs Service spokesman Roger Maier said. “This means we are conducting continuous enhanced enforcement […]
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Fluoride Release Leads to Evacuation of Texas Neighborhood
Yesterday, July 9, an explosion occured at a Texas oil refinery which resulted in the release of an unspecified, but potentially large amount of hydrogen fluoride. According to the article which appeared in today’s Corpus Christi Caller Times, a seven block area adjacent to the plant was soon evacuated after winds blew the HF gas […]
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EPA: Children should avoid Canyon water due to fluoride
The Environmental Protection Agency recommends Canyon children under the age of 9 not drink city water, but the Canyon Independent School District still allows daily water fountain visits and continues using tap water. Canyon residents received the 2000 drinking water quality report in their last water bill. Analysis of the city’s water led to finding […]
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Abilene, Texas to add fluoridation in summertime
Abilene?s fluoridation measure passed in the middle of a winter storm, but it?ll probably be in the summer heat before the city begins adding the chemical to the water supply. City water director Dwayne Hargesheimer said Tuesday it will take about seven months for the city to acquire state funding to pay for the fluoridation […]
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San Antonio voters narrowly approve fluoridation
San Antonio and surrounding communities soon will have fluoride added to their water, according to nearly complete local voting returns that, in the end, generated few upsets or surprises. With early votes and 573 of 625 ballot boxes counted, accounting for 92 percent of the local votes cast, Bexar County Sheriff Ralph Lopez, a Democrat, […]
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