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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 […]

  • Aluminum Firm Gets Qualified Approval To Dump Wastes in Latest Dispute With Frederick Residents

    FREDERICK, Md., May 23, 1983 – Pascal Renn, a 71-year-old dairy farmer, sold 500 prime agricultural acres 15 years ago to an aluminum smelting firm, thinking it would be a boon to his native county. Now, he says, he prays “every night I can do something to protect the community from this selfish company.” Renn’s […]

  • 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 […]

  • Anti-brick brigade fights for more pollution controls

    An NT music faculty member is leading a charge with fellow Denton citizens to force Acme Brick to reexamine its “business as usual” attitude. Acme’s Denton manufacturing plant on Fort Worth Drive has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for renewal of their air quality permit, which associate professor Ed Soph contends the […]

  • Buffer zones head for the border

    Companies with chemical plants just south of the U.S. border are under increasing political and environmental pressure. Recently, the environmental protection agencies of the U.S. and Mexico announced they are seeking public comment on plans to improve the environment along the border. And this week a decision is expected from a Mexican court on whether […]

  • BP Facilities Lead Nation in Chemical and Refinery Accidents Since 1990

    AUSTIN, TEXAS — March 24 — BP’ U.S. facilities have had more than 3565 accidents since 1990, ranking first in the nation, according to a 2004 report by the Texas Public Interest Research Group (TexPIRG). In the wake of the horrible accident at a BP refinery in Texas City Wednesday, TexPIRG called on oil refineries and […]

  • Group wants powerful acid out of BP’s plant

    TEXAS CITY — BP’s operations in the United States have the worst safety record in the industry, according to a consumer advocacy group that wants tons of dangerous acid removed from the energy giant’s Texas City refinery. The Texas Public Interest Research Group, which last year released a report on accidents ranging from small oil […]

  • 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 […]

  • The city of Kyle “warns youngsters not to drink the water”

    BUDA, Texas (STPNS) — Kids under the age of 9 shouldn’t drink the water in Kyle. That’s the message that thousands of Kyle utilities customers read why they opened a letter from the city late last month detailing the high levels of fluoride in local water. Fluoride occurs naturally in all water. Many communities also […]

  • Fluoride to be added to water supply on the Bolivar Peninsula

    BOLIVAR PENINSULA — Fluoride will be added to the public water supply on the Bolivar Peninsula by February. The Bolivar Peninsula Special Utilities District board approved fluoridation in an 8-2 vote Tuesday night. Two residents, including former board member Mac McDonald, protested the addition of fluoride before the vote. In an interview, Karen Shobert said […]