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  • Poisoned Workers & Poisoned Places: Part I. Toxic Legacy

    Chapter 1: Secret program left toxic legacy The U.S. government secretly hired hundreds of private companies during the 1940s and ’50s to process huge volumes of nuclear weapons material, leaving a legacy of poisoned workers and contaminated communities that lingers to this day. From mom-and-pop machine shops to big-name chemical firms, private manufacturing facilities across […]

  • Poisoned Workers & Poisoned Places: Part II. The Workers

    Chapter 1. Contamination lingers on CLEVELAND — In January 1948, Bernard Wolf came here to assure workers at Harshaw Chemical Co. that the uranium they secretly processed for the government’s nuclear weapons program posed no threat to their health. In fact, Wolf, a medical director with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, had evidence of serious […]

  • What’s Ahead for the Nation’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride?

    In storage yards at the nation’s present and former uranium enrichment plants are some 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride, a toxic product of the uranium enrichment process. The US Department of Energy (DOE) in April published a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Alternative Strategies for the Long-Term Management and Use of Depleted […]

  • Truck carrying 16 tons of uranium hexafluoride in accident on West Virginia’s I-64

    A tractor-trailer hauling radioactive materials wrecked and caught fire Sunday, forcing mass evacuations and the shutdown of part of Interstate 64 for about 17 hours, according to authorities. Despite the truck’s total destruction, authorities say the hazardous material did not leak. Around midnight Sunday, an eastbound tractor-trailer and another vehicle wrecked just past the I-64 […]

  • Alert Sounded on Potentially Lethal Refinery Chemical

    Fifty-eight U.S. oil refineries, including three in the Los Angeles area, are using a potentially lethal chemical that could result in a Bhopal-like disaster threatening as many as 12 million people across the country, a Washington-based environmental group has warned. Fred Millar of the Environmental Policy Institute issued the warning three years after the Bhopal […]

  • UK: Dietary intake estimate for PFOS and other PFCs in UK retail foods

    Title of study: Dietary intake estimate for perfluorooctanesulphonic acid (PFOS) and other perfluorocompounds (PFCs) in UK retail foods following determination using standard addition LC-MS/MS Abstract The analysis of 252 food samples (UK-produced and imported) purchased from a variety of retail outlets in the UK was undertaken for the presence of perfluorooctanesulphonic acid (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid […]

  • Sulfuryl fluoride: Environmental groups petition EPA to retract fluoride pesticide tolerances on food

    Two national environmental organizations, Environmental Working Group and Beyond Pesticides, joined today with the Fluoride Action Network in challenging the safety of new food tolerances issued by the EPA for the fluoride based pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride. This action marks growing concern among mainstream scientists and environmental organizations that total exposure to fluoride, from water, food, […]

  • Fluoride: Disposing of Mining Waste Through Your Body

    BRADENTON — August 13 ended Fluoride Awareness Week and promotion of the documentary with numerous health experts and scientists describing examples of many maladies caused by intake of the phosphate mining/fertilizer industry’s hazardous waste. The documentary is available for free viewing on line here. The maladies from this forced pollution of your body include (but […]

  • Fluoride Risks for Kidney Patients

    Kidney disease markedly increases an individual’s susceptibility to fluoride toxicity. The kidneys are responsible for ridding the body of ingested fluoride, and thereby preventing the buildup of toxic levels of fluoride in the body. In healthy adults, the kidneys are able to excrete approximately 50% of an ingested dose of fluoride. However, in adults with […]

  • Similarities between Skeletal Fluorosis and Renal Osteodystrophy

    It is quite possible, and indeed likely, that some kidney patients diagnosed with renal osteodystrophy are either suffering from skeletal fluorosis or their condition is being complicated/exacerbated by fluoride exposure.