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Big Companies in Legal Scrapes Turn to Science for- Hire Giant Exponent
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired Exponent to provide the experts in an ongoing federal lawsuit (Food & Water vs EPA) to defend the use of adding fluoride to drinking water in spite of the fact that fluoride has been found to be neurotoxic to the fetus and bottle-fed […]
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Spondias mombin, a potential bioindicator of potassium fluoride pollution.
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X-ray changes in the forearm and crus of residents of areas in Jilin Province with varying drinking water fluoride concentrations
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Environmental chemical exposures and neurodevelopmental impairments in children.
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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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Exposure to environmental neurotoxic substances and neurodevelopment in children from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Introduction Environmental neurotoxicants are pollutants that can negatively affect many cellular metabolic-processes through different pathways: neuroendocrine/thyroid hormone disruption (Pb, methyl-Hg, organochlorines, and polychlorinated biphenyls-PCB), oxidative stress (Pb, methyl-Hg, organochlorines, and chlorpyrifos), dopamine dysfunction (Pb, methyl-Hg, As, chlorpyrifos, pyrethroids, and organochlorines) (Heyer and Meredith, 2017; Rock and Patisaul, 2018). Pistollato et al. (2020) studied neurotoxic substances […]
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Assessment of groundwater quality and associated health risk in the arid environment, Western Saudi Arabia.
Abstract Groundwater quality and associated health risk in the arid environment, Rabigh basin, Western Saudi Arabia, was assessed using an integrated approach namely groundwater suitability zone (GWSZ) maps, drinking water quality index (DWQI), irrigation water quality (IWQ) parameters, irrigation water quality index (IWQI), chronic daily index (CDI), and hazard quotient (HQ). Groundwater samples were collected […]
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Ecological Russian Roulette
NADVOITSY, Russia – The children of this town learn early not to smile. When they do, they show a ghastly array of blackened, splintered, rotting stumps where milk-white teeth might have been. An environmental plague has struck this northern land of lakes, no longer pristine, and thinning pine forests. The children of Nadvoitsy are its […]
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Inhance Technologies LLC to spend $239,000 for hydrogen fluoride violations in IL, IA, MO
Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, as part of a settlement of the company’s alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Emergency […]
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Biomonitoring and assessment of airborne fluoride using Lolium perenne near a phosphate fertilizer production facility.