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  • Norfluor S.V. Under Investigation

    Norfluor S.V. Stepped Out Of Its Comfort Zone Located near what was once considered the outskirts of Cd. Juárez, one of the world’s largest chemical plants has had its home for 20 years and has no intention of relocating, although residents and environmentalists wish otherwise. Norfluor, S.V. one of seven major manufactures of hydrofluoric acid, […]

  • Poison cloud fears grow as Allies bomb chemical sites

    NATO’S sustained destruction of Serbian oil dumps and chemical depots has increased fears of an environmental disaster in the Balkans. In northern Greece, people are stockpiling bottled water and canned food after warnings that the bombardment had released poisonous dioxins into the atmosphere. ‘Many wondered whether the entire province should be evacuated en masse,’ a […]

  • Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?

    Brownsville, Texas – On a hairpin bend of the Rio Grande, where the south wind from Mexico carries the sweet smell of freshly cut sorghum and the stench of chemicals, something terrible befell Janet Ramirez. The child she had prayed for, her first, was born dead with a tangled mass of nerve endings instead of […]

  • Managing methamphetamine mess

    Victor Boyd cleans up the sort of mess few people want anything to do with – the remnants of illegal methamphetamine laboratories. The Titirangi resident got his idea for his company, Contaminated Site Solutions, while working for another commercial cleaner. “We’d been approached by a couple of councils and they didn’t know how to deal […]

  • Kansas City, Missouri: EPA Joins Probe in Bannister Investigation

    A little background to this newspaper report from an US EPA Fact Sheet of January 2010: Bannister Federal Complex, 1500 E. Bannister Road, Kansas City, Missouri INTRODUCTION The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7, at the request of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), will work with the General Services Administration (GSA) to […]

  • Canadian polluters increased chemical releases by 20% from 1995 to 2001

    TORONTO, June 19 /CNW/ – Pollution of Canada’s air, water and land is on an upward trend that has seen it increase by more than 20% since 1995, according to an updated environmental website launched today. Total releases of chemicals of concern increased by more than 36 million kilograms (kg) from 177,009,091 kg in 1995 […]

  • Legacy of pain

    Donald F. Metzen looks back with anger when thinking about his career, remembering all the chemicals he says he watched his company dump into Two Mile Creek. For years, he suspected those chemicals caused his wife’s death and his ailments. Today, he suspects the wastes from the defunct telephone equipment manufacturing company, Western Electric, also […]

  • Chemicals Used in Hydraulic Fracturing: a U.S. Congressional report

    See report, U.S. Congress, minority report, list of fracking chemicals. Excerpts: From Executive Summary: … Hydraulic fracturing has helped to expand natural gas production in the United States, unlocking large natural gas supplies in shale and other unconventional formations across the country. As a result of hydraulic fracturing and advances in horizontal drilling technology, natural […]

  • Toxic Waste Left Off Banned List

    Five chemicals subject to strict environmental controls in the United States, including an acid powerful enough to melt glass, have been left off Australia’s National Pollutant Inventory. All five of these chemicals are believed to have been released into the environment by Melbourne factories recently. The inventory, the subject of four years of negotiation between […]

  • Sodium monofluorophosphate as a source of fluoride added for nutritional purposes to food supplement

    For citation purposes: Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources added to Food on a request from the Commission on disodium fluorophosphate added for nutritional purposes to food supplements. The EFSA Journal (2008) 886, 1-18. Question number: EFSA-Q-2006-277, EFSA-Q-2006-295 Adopted date: 27 November 2008 Summary Following a request from the European […]