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Cities facing a shortage of fluoride additive
LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 11— A growing number of cities are facing severe shortages of fluoride additives used in water supplies to prevent tooth decay. Twelve cities in the West and Middle West, including Seattle, Youngstown, Ohio, and Green Bay, Wis., have been forced to halt their fluoridation programs, according to Arthur Jackson, a public health […]
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The St. Regis Syndrome
Long before Canada or the United States existed, Mohawks fished, hunted, trapped and farmed those islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that are now known as the St. Regis Akwesasne Indian Reserve. But since 1959 a plague has fallen on their land, killing their livestock, destroying their agriculture, ripping apart the very fabric of […]
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Fluoride Reduction in Community Water Supplies
Fluoride Reduction in Community Water Supplies A 92-page report prepared for the state of South Carolina, Department of Health & Environmental Control, Water Supply Division. Volume One – 1980. Excerpts: Abstract Forty-three community water supplies located along the east coast of South Carolina contain fluoride concentrations which exceed the limit established by law. During the […]
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Fluoride Pollution at Akwesasne Reservation
James Thompson pulls open the barbed wire gate leading to a grassy pasture and, with two mongrel dogs at his heels, steps inside to inspect his 50 head of Hereford cattle, all dying slowly from fluoride poisoning. His herd stands in minature; stunted, only waist-high. Calves are sometimes stillborn. The cows, after four years, can’t […]
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$750,000 Given In Child’s Death In Fluoride Case
A State Supreme Court jury awarded $750,000 yesterday to the parents of a 3year-old Brooklyn boy who, on his first trip to the dentist in 1974, was given a lethal dose of FLUORIDE at a city dental clinic and then ignored for nearly five hours in the waiting rooms of a pediatric clinic and Brookdale […]
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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 […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry