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Eastalco Aluminum Sued Over Fluoride Emissions
Wearing quilted jackets, string ties and suspenders, the dairy farmers who sat in a Frederick County courtroom last week are not anyone’s image of political activists. But they are part of a new group of environmentalists: those who claim that industrial pollution damages their livelihoods as well as the quality of their lives. The dairy […]
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Tons of Fluoride Emitted in 3 Florida Counties
Manatee, Hillsborough and Polk Counties suffer four times the fluoride air pollution burdens which apparently have caused acute fluorosis of cattle in Maryland as reported by the Washington Post in an article published Saturday in the Herald-Tribune. The impacts of the Florida pollution, however, have been carefully concealed by the phosphate companies from whose mills […]
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Sick Cows, Human Fears in Maryland County
BUCKEYSTOWN, Md. – Five years ago, Pat Zimmerman, a husky woman in broken down galoshes and wornout blue jeans, opened her barn door to let her prize Holsteins in for milking. Only a few of the cows stood at the door. The rest stood bawling at the end of the lane. Pat went out to […]
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U.S. Steel Gets Pollution Fine Of $4 Million
The U.S. Steel Corp., the nations largest steel-maker, agreed yesterday to pay a $4 million fine in settlement of a long-standing water pollution suit brought by the federal government and the state of Indiana. The steel company, in a consent decree signed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Hammond, Ind., also agreed to pay additional […]
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Alafia River Polluted with Fluorides
The south prong of the Alafia River is polluted with fluorides, making its water unsuitable for drinking, Hillsborough County environmental chemist Tom Cardinale said yesterday. “If that’s so, the Picnic dam and reservoir are shot down right now,” John Logan, Hillsborough water resources director, responded. Removing fluoride from water is prohibitively costly, he said. The […]
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Fluoride Kills Ponderosa Pines
LAKE ARROWHEAD – The majestic pines have made the Lake Arrowhead region one of California’s favorite playlands. Today, the familiar sound of the wind whistling through the primeval forests is being replaced with shattering echoes of chain saws cutting up timber from over a thousand acres of damaged trees. Lake Arrowhead is big ecological news. […]
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“Air Is Fluoridated”
WHEN THE TOPIC of fluoridation comes up, most people laugh at the poor unfortunate people who still think fluoridation is harmful. But most people don’t know about the seriousness of fluoride air pollution. In places like the Bay Area (San Francisco), where the air we breathe is fluoridated, it may not be a good idea […]
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The Town that Refused to Die
It was the first day of the fall term. Mrs. Lucille Davis had already handed out the spelling assignments, but the children were restless. The heat in the classroom was stifling. Even on the shaded porch of the little schoolhouse, in Garrison, Montana, the thermometer registered 98 degrees. As her third-graders fretfully turned to their […]
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Thermal degradation of polyvinylidene fluoride and polyvinyl fluoride by oven pyrolysis.
Excerpts TECHNICAL REPORT 69-7-C14 THERMAL DEGRADATION OF POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE AND POLYVINYL FLUORIDE BY OVEN PYROLYSIS by John T. Stapler William J. Barnes William E. C. Yelland Materials Research Division Project Reference IT024401A329 Series: C&W4-50 July 1968 Clothing and Organic Materials Laboratory U. S. ARMY NATICK LABORATORIES Natick, Massachusetts 01760 FOREWORD This report is based on […]
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FRANCIS ARNOLD, U.S. DENTAL HEAD, Ex-Officer of Public Health Service Is Dead at 56
Special to The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3– Dr. Francis A. Arnold Jr., former chief dental officer of the Public Health Service and assistant Surgeon General of the United States, died Friday at the Public Health Service Hospital here. He was 56 years old. Fluoride Innovator Dr. Arnold had retired in September from […]
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