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HCFC-22: U.S. reaches settlement with Safeway to reduce emissions of ozone-depleting substances nationwide
Largest case ever under Clean Air Act’s ozone protection requirements WASHINGTON – In a settlement agreement with the United States, Safeway, the nation’s second largest grocery store chain, has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty and implement a corporate-wide plan to significantly reduce its emissions of ozone-depleting substances from refrigeration equipment at 659 of […]
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Lethbridge: Sign vandalism highlights essence of fluoride debate
As the citizens of Lethbridge prepare to elect the next city council this fall, the fluoridation debate becomes ever more relevant and heated. In an effort to raise awareness, educate and encourage citizens to participate in this debate, many around Lethbridge have put out lawn signs pointing out the obvious and offensive fallacies of water […]
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Kenya: New effort to provide communities with high levels of fluoride safe water
Excerpt: STOCKHOLM — Today at World Water Week in Stockholm, The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) announced the Company’s support of new programs in four African countries – Kenya, Zambia, Madagascar, and Mozambique. The funding, a total of $4.6MM from The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, will support sustainable solutions […]
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Sonoma County: Fluoridation: Not Safe, Not Effective
Everyone agrees that life is better with teeth. But there is much evidence that fluoride in drinking water may harm teeth and bones and may not reduce tooth decay at all. Writing in the August Gazette, Sonoma County’s Public Health Officer, Lynn Silver Chalfin, M.D., mentioned the Iowa Fluoride Study. But instead of telling us […]
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Piney Point tainted water threat grows
If the water storage systems fail, millions of gallons of contaminated water could again flow into Bishop Harbor. The owners of a former phosphate processing plant here have failed to comply with several environmental mandates after millions of gallons of tainted factory water spilled into Bishop Harbor during a Port Manatee dredging project. HRK Holdings […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Davis City Council. Commentary: Pro-fluoridation forces shoot down alternative proposal
n the last several weeks, we have laid out some reasons we think it is unlikely the Davis City Council will ultimately go forward with fluoridation and why we believe any such effort will result in an effort to put the matter on the ballot and ultimately lead to the defeat of the proposal – […]
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Huntington: Deadly Hydrogen Fluoride sent to waste treatment plant EPA records show
Hydrogen fluoride is one of the many waste chemicals sent to the Huntington Wastewater Treatment Plant by Special Metals/Huntington Alloys, according to an EPA Waste Management file. The plant began receiving HF as early as 1987 and it has continued at least through 2010, the records show. What is HF? It’s so dangerous that contact […]
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Bangalore: A cocktail of toxins
Chemical analysis of water samples collected as a part of ground water monitoring, carried out by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), has thrown up worrying results. Besides nitrate, fluoride, salinity being above normal levels, fluoride and radon gas have emerged as the new ingredients in the city’s ground water above permissible levels. “We have […]
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Downing Street rules out second Syria vote
Downing Street has ruled out a second vote on military action in Syria, after pressure grew for David Cameron to return to the Commons with new evidence of chemical attacks. Boris Johnson and others have suggested that MPs could be asked to vote again on military action in Syria as new facts emerge, despite suggestions […]
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Why Oil Companies Want to Drop Acid in California
In the Golden State, fracking has given way to ‘acidizing’ as a means to extract oil No, it’s not the brown acid passed around at a 1960s rock concerts. Hydrofluoric acid is the most dangerous chemical you’ve never heard of, and it’s being trucked around California’s back roads and injected into oil wells, with virtually […]
United States, California Fracking