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  • BBC: Russian community relocated to escape fluoride pollution from aluminum plant

    [Presenter] Now back to domestic news. Irkutsk ecologists have carried out more research work in the area of the Bratsk Aluminium Plant. They have proven that poisonous substances discharged by the plant’s smokestacks for many years are extremely dangerous for local residents. Local authorities have been impressed by the collected data. Officials say that they […]

  • Fluoride pollution from aluminum plant in Tibet

    The ancient bus toiled up through golden canola fields and ripening apricot orchards, stopping only for a quick lunch at a Muslim restaurant before resuming the long climb. Could this really be Tibet? Outside were whitecapped Muslims and Chinese checkpoints, but in the bus Tibetan nomads, their city business done, were on their way home […]

  • Florida fertilizer plant: $9.5M settlement reached in East Hill pollution case

    A $9.5 million settlement reached this week could bring thousands of dollars to some East Hill property owners to compensate for pollution believed to have seeped beneath their land from a Superfund site. On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Joel Boles gave preliminary approval to a settlement in a class action suit that alleges that pollutants […]

  • Health effects of residential exposure to aluminum plant air pollution

  • NHRC orders Odisha Pollution Control Board to take action on crops damaged by Hindalco

    The National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) has directed to State Pollution control board to take appropriate action on crops damaged by Hindalco Industries Limited in Odisha. Acting on a complaint of rights activist Akhand of India Media Centre, the commission ordered an action within eight weeks. According to the petitioner, every year Standing crops in thousands […]

  • Fluoride Pollution at Akwesasne Reservation

    James Thompson pulls open the barbed wire gate leading to a grassy pasture and, with two mongrel dogs at his heels, steps inside to inspect his 50 head of Hereford cattle, all dying slowly from fluoride poisoning. His herd stands in minature; stunted, only waist-high. Calves are sometimes stillborn. The cows, after four years, can’t […]

  • Nadvoitsy Aluminum Plant’s Fluoride Pollution Decays Teeth & Causes Joint Disease

    The first thing that anyone coming to the settlement of Nadvoitsy (Karelia) encounters … is a strong, throat-burning odor of nitrogen sulfide on the street. But the odor penetrates railroad cars about 20 minutes before Nadvoitsy, when the train passes by the Segezha Pulp and Paper Combine. Most residents of Nadvoitsy consider this “aroma” to […]

  • Zhejiang Province: Villagers angered by pollution

    Villagers in east China’s Zhejiang Province are demanding a nearby aluminum factory cease polluting the environment after they said 127 people had suffered fluoride poisoning and 84 had caught cancers over the past 27 years.   From 1985 to the end of last year, 23 villagers living near the factory in Zhejiang’s Lanxi City died […]

  • Fluoride Pollution from Aluminum Smelter in Kurri Kurri Australia

    Kurri and Weston residents have made a ‘private eye’ to record industrial pollution in the area. Three people spent six weeks and used donated materials to build the mobile fluoride monitor. It will be used to independently check pollution from Kurri’s aluminium smelter and a newly opened aluminium dross factory. The residents have also bought […]

  • Intel promises to address Hillsboro neighbors’ pollution concerns

    Intel says it plans to address neighborhood concerns about atmospheric pollution at its Hillsboro factories, responding to residents’ frustrations that the company failed to report fluoride emissions to regulators. “Quite honestly, it’s embarrassing to us because this isn’t the way we do business,” said Todd Brady, Intel’s global environmental director. “We are doing a tremendous […]