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Ralph Nader speaks out against fluoridation in San Antonio
I am not normally a fence-sitter, but until last week I was straddling the barbed wire on the fluoridation issue, and it was getting mighty uncomfortable. With an 18-month-old daughter at home, my wife and I have debated the volatile issue many times. Most discussions ended with the two of us more confused than ever […]
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Nader Urges San Antonio Voters to Vote Against Fluoridation
Nader stance Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader held a news conference before Thursday?s rally on the San Antonio College campus to discuss his stance on the following issues: Universal health care: Nader is for a universal healthcare system. ?We are the only western country without universal, acceptable health insurance.? He added that 46 million […]
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Fluoride Vote Renews 34-Year Issue in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO — Reviving a bitter 34-year debate, the City Council has ordered a November special election to decide whether fluoride finally should be added to the city’s drinking water to promote dental health. For proponents, it could be another tough sell for an idea twice rejected by San Antonio voters. “It is truly a […]
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San Antonio fluoride task force stating its case
Behind the dentist, photographs of toothless mouths hung agape, while before her a group of residents weighed the merits of fluoridated water. Linda Altenhoff, a dentist with the Texas Department of Health, spent her Wednesday evening at the end of May explaining to 25 members of the District 9 Neighborhood Alliance why they should support […]
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Corpus Christi: Sierra Club requests criminal investigation of CITGO Refining’s May 12th accident
Excerpt: SIERRA CLUB P. O. Box 1931 Austin, TX 78767 June 26, 1997 The Honorable Jane Saginaw Regional Administrator, Region VI United States Environmental Protection Agency 1445 Ross Avenue, Suite 1200 Dallas, Texas 75202-2733 Fax 214-665-6648 Re: Criminal investigation requested of CITGO Refining’s May 12th accident at Corpus Christi, Texas due to toxic hydrofluoric acid […]
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Corpus Christi: CITGO findings disputed
The Texas Sierra Club on Friday disputed the findings of a CITGO-hired botanist who said that toxic gas did not escape into the neighborhoods after the May 12 refinery explosion because vegetation in the area wasn’t damaged. Neil Carman, the Sierra Club’s clean air program director, said he found lots of brown plants. After hearing […]
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A ‘Toxic Tour of Texas’
Rita Carlson often referred to herself as just a Texas City housewife, but that was only part of who she was. Before Carlson and her family moved to rural Illinois in April 1990, she also was the first president of Texas POWER, People Organized to Win Environmental Rights, a statewide coalition of grass-roots environmental groups, […]
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Hydrofluoric Acid Leak in Texas Leaves a Residue of Questions
TEXAS CITY, Tex. – After 4,000 people were evacuated as a result of a leak of hydrofluoric acid from a refinery, questions are still being asked about potential hazards here and in other cities where the same chemical is used. Those questions center both on the long-term effects on those exposed to the Oct. 30 […]
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66 Are Injured By Toxic Leak At Texas Plant
TEXAS CITY, Tex., Oct. 31 – Sixty-six people were seriously injured and 3,000 residents fled their homes Friday after a leaking tank at an oil refinery sent up a cloud of toxic acid vapor. Workers today pumped the leaking hydrofluoric acid through a two-inch hose into two connecting tank cars at the Marathon Petroleum Company […]
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2,000 Forced to Flee Acid Cloud at Texas Refinery; 100 Injured
TEXAS CITY, Tex. – A crane dropped its load onto a pipe at an oil refinery Friday, unleashing a hydrofluoric acid cloud that forced the evacuation of at least 2,000 people and sent more than 100 others to hospitals, officials said. Workers at Marathon Oil Co. sprayed water into the vapor cloud Friday night in […]
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