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"Airborne fluorides have caused more worldwide damage to domestic animals than any other air pollutant." - US Department of Agriculture. Air Pollutants Affecting the Performance of Domestic Animals. Agricultural Handbook No. 380. Revised. 1972. p. 109.

"Certainly, there has been more litigation on alleged damage to agriculture by fluoride than all other pollutants combined." - Weinstein LH. (1983)."Effects of Fluorides on Plants and Plant Communities: An Overview." In: Shupe JL, Peterson HB, Leone NC, (Eds). Fluorides: Effects on Vegetation, Animals, and Humans. Paragon Press. Salt Lake City, Utah. pp. 53-59.

Between 1957 and 1968 "fluoride was responsible for more damage claims against industry than all twenty [nationally monitored air pollutants] combined." - Groth E. (1969). Air is Fluoridated. The Peninsula Observer Jan 27 - Feb 3.

General

• Fluorides in the Air Environment April 1973
• Fluoride: Commie Plot or Capitalist Ploy? Covert Action Quarterly Fall 1992
• Why Fluoride is an Environmental Issue Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal 1998
• Fluoride, Teeth & the Atomic Bomb Joel Griffiths & Chris Bryson, Waste Not 414, 1997
• "Air is Fluoridated" Edward Groth III, Peninsula Observer, Jan-Feb 1969
• Fluoride Pollution Edward Groth III, Environment, April/May 1975
• Environmental Fluoride National Research Council of Canada, 1977
• Fluoride Versus Sulfur Oxides in Air Pollution Dr. George Waldbott, Fluoride, October 1974
• The Ecological Aspect of Fluoride John Marier, Fluoride, April 1972
• Toxicity of Hydrogen Fluoride Versus Other Acid Gases A.S. Rozhkov & T.A. Mikhailova, Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 1993

Community Experiences with Fluoride Pollution

• St. Regis Syndrome Science News July 19, 1980
• Air of Death Canadian Broadcasting Company 1967
• The Town that Refused to Die Good Housekeeping January 1969
• Ecological Russian Roulette Los Angeles Times November 22, 1994
• Shattered Dreams in the Town that Cannot Smile Scotland on Sunday March 22, 1998
• Tajik Aluminum - Environmental Disaster Area in Central Asia Compilation of articles, 1991-2001
• Chinese Steel Plant Belches Poison China Daily August 8, 1998
• Russian aluminium giant evades paying for environmental damage BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union June 30, 2001
• Nalco smelter fluoride damages Orissa crops Indo-Asian News Service October 14, 2003
• Sick Cows, Human Fears in Maryland County The Washington Post August 7, 1977
• Fluoride Pollution in Polk County Florida excerpt from Terracide: America's Destruction of Her Living Environment 1970
• Corporate Country William Rodgers, Jr., Rodale Press, 1973
• Air Pollution from Stauffer Chemical Phosphate Plant Ombudsman Report, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, December 29, 2000
• Fluoride-tainted Pasture Grass May Harm Cattle Tampa Tribune February 16, 1984
• Companies skewed Pensacola pollution evidence Fort Worth Star September 9, 2003
• What Lies Beneath Affects Rising Homes The Tampa Tribune July 13, 2003
• 2 dairy farmers sue chemical plant over fluoride in Montco, PA The Philadelphia Inquirer September 5, 2001
• Mexicans fear DuPont's Hydrofluoric Acid plant could cause 'Next Bhopal' Los Angeles Times November 20, 1991
• Fluoride pollution from aluminum plant in Tibet Compilation of material, 2001
• Lung Cancer in a Steel City Fluoride July 1990
• 2,000 Forced to Flee Hydrofluoric Acid Cloud at Texas Refinery; 100 Injured Los Angeles Times October 31, 1987

Fluoride Implicated in Donora & Meuse Air Pollution Disasters

• The Donora Death Fog: A Secret History of America's Worst Air Pollution Disaster Chris Bryson, Earth Island Journal, 1998
• The Fog Disaster in the Meuse Valley, 1930: A Fluorine Intoxication Kaj Roholm, Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, Vol. 19, No. 3, 1937
• Fluoride Versus Sulfur Oxides in Air Pollution Dr. George Waldbott, Fluoride, October 1974

Human health effects (Neighborhood & Occupational)

• Respiratory problems from airborne fluorides - Compilation of studies
• Radiological Modifications of the Skeletal System Among Aluminum Smelter Workers - Fluoride October 1989
• Industrial Fluoride Pollution in the Metallurgical Industry in China - Fluoride July 1987
• Industrial Fluorosis - Fluoride October 1981
• Skeletal Changes in Industrial and Endemic Fluorosis - Fluoride January 1978
• Fluoride-Induced Changes in 60 Retired Aluminum Workers - Fluoride July 1977
• "Neighborhood" Fluorosis - Fluoride 1969
• Neighborhood Fluorosis in the USA - Fluoride January 1969
• Fluorine Hazards with Special Reference to Some Social Consequences of Industrial Processes - The Lancet 1946
• The Fog Disaster in the Meuse Valley, 1930: A Fluorine Intoxication - Kaj Roholm, Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, 1937
• Chromosomal aberrations and micronuclei in lymphocytes of workers at a phosphate fertilizer factory Mutation Research, Volume 393, 1997
• Exposure to hydrogen fluoride: an experimental study in humans Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1997

Fluoride's Effects on Animals & Vegetation

• The Effect of Fluorine-Containing Emissions on Conifers A.S. Rozhkov & T.A. Mikhailova, Siberian Institute of Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 1993
• Fluorides and Sulfur Dioxides as Causes of Plant Damage Fluoride Vol. 3 No. 3 1970
• Air quality criteria for the protection of plants from visible injury caused by gaseous fluoride Alan Davison, University of Newcastle, & Leonard Weinstein, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University.
• Visible symptoms of fluoride injury. Alan Davison, University of Newcastle, & Leonard Weinstein, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University.
• Environmental Fluoride (Section 2) National Research Council of Canada 1977
• Clinical Aspects of Fluorosis in Horses Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association January 15, 1971
• New York State and U.S. Federal fluoride pollution standards do not protect cattle health Cornell Veterinarian April 1980
• Fluoride Standards and Predicting Wildlife Effects Fluoride, January 1984
• The Effect of Industrial Fluoride on Black-Tailed Deer Fluoride July 1979
• Cytogenetic Effects of Gaseous Fluorides on Grain Crops Fluoride Vol 26 No.1 23-32 1993
• The Influence of Fluorine Compounds on the Biological Life near an Aluminum Plant Fluoride January 1969

Fluoride's effects on Fish

• Canadian Water Quality Guidelines for the protection of Aquatic Life: Inorganic fluorides (pdf file) Environment Canada, August 2001
• Testimony of Dr. Paul Engelking, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon. (pdf file) April 11, 2001
• Impact of Artificial Fluoridation on Salmon In the Northwest US and British Columbia by Richard G Foulkes, MD and Anne C. Anderson, RPN. Earth Island Journal.
• Stoned Salmon, Pissed Environmentalists Willamette Weekly March 28, 2001
• Inorganic Fluorides: Priority Substances List Assessment Report Environment Canada 1993

Fluoridated Greenhouse Gases

• F For Forgotten: Why Potent Industrial Greenhouse Gases Deserve More Attention Multisectorial Initiative on Potent Industrial Greenhouse Gases, 2002
• New report highlights warming risk from F-gases Multisectorial Initiative on Potent Industrial Greenhouse Gases, 2002
• The Capture of Standards by the F-gas Industry Multisectorial Initiative on Potent Industrial Greenhouse Gases, 2002
• Potent New Greenhouse Gas Discovered Environmental News Service July 31, 2000
• New Greenhouse Gas Identified, Potent and Rare (but Expanding) New York Times July 28, 2000

VIDEO: "Industrial Fluoride Pollution: A Historical Perspective" - A video, produced by Len Greenall of British Columbia and narrated by Stanley Burke of the CBC, discussing the impact of fluoride air pollution. Produced in the 1980s, the video is now accessible online for the first time. The video is available in 3 formats:

• High-Quality Quicktime Movie (33.2 Mb)
• Low-Quality Quicktime Movie (4.8 Mb)
• Medium-Quality Windows Media Player (10.1 Mb)

Fluoride Pollution: News Articles

NOTE: To see the latest articles on fluoride pollution, organized by industry-type, click here

Aluminum Industry

• "Nalco plant: Experts to study crop damage" NewIndPress.com August 13, 2005
• "Kaiser agrees to clean some polluted land" The Associated Press August 12, 2004
• "Eastalco claims EPA numbers are wrong" The Gazette July 1, 2004
• "UNC senator sounds warning on La Brea smelter site" Trinidad & Tobago Express June 3, 2004
• "Nalco smelter fluoride damages Orissa crops" Indo-Asian News Service October 14, 2003
• "Health, Environment in Danger from Russian Region's Metal Works" BBC Monitoring International Reports June 9, 2003
• "Group Of Residents Sues Chemical Firms" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch December 13, 2002
• "Salmon farmers threaten to leave if aluminum smelter is built" - Business News Americas October 9, 2002
• "Aluminium smelting plant should not be used to justify Bakun" - Friends of the Earth - Malaysia, August 24, 2002
• Salmon producers, doctors, environmentalists, criticize Noranda's proposed Aluminum plant in Chile - Compilation of articles
• "Russian aluminium giant evades paying for environmental damage" - BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union June 30, 2001
• "Cyber warrior" - The Age (Australia), February 27, 2001
• "State Ecology Department hits Kaiser with $388,000 fine" - The Associated Press September 22, 2000
• "Tajik Aluminum: Environmental Disaster in Central Asia" - Compilation of Articles
• Fluoride Pollution from Aluminum Smelter in Kurri Kurri Australia - Compilation of articles
• "Brazilian Communities tackle Aluminum industry" - Drillbits & Tailings April 17, 1999
• "Speaking out against aluminum giants" - Inter Press Service March 31, 1999
• "Shattered Dreams in the Town that Cannot Smile" - Scotland on Sunday March 22, 1998
• "Russians Who Give A Damn" - Reader's Digest (Australia) November 1996
• Animal poisoning raises controversy near Irish Aluminum Smelter - The Irish Times April 15, 1995
• "Ecological Russian Roulette" - Los Angeles Times November 22, 1994
• "Tarnished Aluminum Plant (but a Shiny Future?)" - The New York Times October 24, 1994
• Nadvoitsy Aluminum Plant's Fluoride Pollution Decays Teeth, Causes Joint Disease - Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, April 13, 1994
• "My Life as a Dump: Risking Life and Lung in the Toxic American Century" - Washington Post March 28, 1993
• "Aluminum Firm Gets Qualified Approval To Dump Wastes in Latest Dispute With Frederick Residents" - Washington Post May 24, 1983
• "Skawina Aluminum Factory to be Closed Because of Pollution" - BBC Summary of World Broadcasts. January 22, 1981
• "St. Regis Syndrome" - Science News July 19, 1980
• Fluoride Pollution at Akwesasne Reservation - Macleans Magazine. July 30, 1979
• Eastalco Aluminum Sued Over Fluoride Emissions - The Washington Post, Compilation of articles
• "Sick Cows, Human Fears in Md. County" The Washington Post August 7, 1977
• "Corporate Country: Aluminum's Alloys" - William Rodgers, Rodale Press, 1973

Phosphate Industry

• "Phosphate spill endangers once-thriving lake" Mobile Register, July 3, 2005
• "Wastewater Dump Seen As `Lesser Of Two Evils'" The Tampa Tribune February 19, 2005
• "Famed Activist To Meet Coronet Complainants" The Tampa Tribune January 23, 2005
• "Tribes object to Simplot plan" Idaho State Journal January 14, 2005
• "In Shadows Of Coronet, Questions On Health Persist" The Tampa Tribune January 10, 2005
• "Cargill Was Told Thin Berm A Threat" The Tampa Tribune September 8, 2004
• " Spill corrodes reputation for aiding environment" St. Petersburg Times September 8, 2004
• "Agrium gets OK to expand" CBC Calgary August 10, 2004
• "Cattle Suffered Due to Fluoride" The Ledger June 21, 2004
• "Top 10 findings of Escambia Co. Grand Jury" Pensacola News Journal May 6, 2004
• "Panel raps state, federal, local agencies on Pensacola pollution" The Associated Press May 4, 2004
• "Survey Focuses On Health Woes, Not The Causes" The Tampa Tribune April 18, 2004
• "Medical Mystery" The Tampa Tribune April 18, 2004
• "Larry Gosnell, 1923-2004" Playback April 12, 2004
• "ConocoPhillips to pay $70 million to settle Florida pollution suits" Associated Press April 6, 2004
• "Emotional week for area residents" Fort Saskatchewan Record March 5, 2004
• "Heartland: “a pollution ghetto” Fort Saskatchewan Record February 27, 2004
• "Residents fight Agrium expansion; want controls" Edmonton Journal February 24, 2004
• "Brockovich Firm Takes Case On Coronet Health Concerns" The Tampa Tribune September 16, 2003
• "Coronet's Problems Were Kept Quiet For Far Too Long" The Tampa Tribune" August 1, 2003
• "Plant City Officials Blast Regulators Over Coronet" The Tampa Tribune July 30, 2003
• "Official Urges Coronet Probe" The Tampa Tribune July 18, 2003
• Study to Address Cancer, Bone Problems, & Other Health Concerns Near Coronet Phosphate The Tampa Tribune July 13, 2003
• "Samples Of Soil Cleared At Plant" The Tampa tribune September 9, 2003
• "Companies skewed Pensacola pollution evidence" Fort Worth Star September 9, 2003
• The Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: An Environmental Overview Fluoride Action Network May 2003
• "What Lies Beneath Affects Rising Homes" The Tampa Tribune July 13, 2003
• "Neighbors fear health effects of blowing gypsum" The Edmonton Journal June 14, 2003
• "Fears over level of toxic fluoride: Homegrown produce threatened by emissions" Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) June 9, 2003
• "Concerns over high levels of fluoride" - Otago Daily Times (New Zealand) June 4, 2003
• 600 million gallons of industry wastewater to be dumped into Gulf - Tampa Tribune February 22, 2003
• Investigation into Buffalo deaths near Phosphate plant - The Hindu December 9, 2002
• "Superfund site might pose greater risk, legal fight shows" - Pensacola News Journal September 15, 2002
• Oswal Phosphate Plant facing Closure due to Fluoride Contamination - India Business Insight June 13 & 18, 2002
• "Hamilton County: Death in the Air" - George Glasser April 2001
• "Air Pollution from Stauffer Chemical Phosphate Plant Ombudsman Report" - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, December 29, 2000
• Regional planners OK Fort Meade phosphate gypsum stack - Tampa Tribune August 23, 1994
• Polk firm engineers new technology to capture HF- Tampa Tribune April 17, 1994
• "A host of roasted daffodils" - The Guardian December 15, 1988
• "Keysville air quality to be monitored" - East Hillsborough Tribune January 20, 1986
• "In Acrid Brazilian Factory Zone, A Fear of Disaster" - The New York Times. May 18, 1985
• "Fluoride-tainted Pasture Grass May Harm Cattle" - Tampa Tribune February 16, 1984
• "Terracide: America's Destruction of Her Living Environment" - Ron M. Linton, Little, Brown and Company, 1970
• "The Town that Refused to Die" - Good Housekeeping January 1969
• "Air of Death" - Canadian Broadcasting Company 1967

Oil Refineries

• "Refiners unnecessarily put millions at risk" San Diego Union Tribune, August 5, 2005
• "Population Explosion" Philadephia Weekly April 13, 2005
• "Groups: Chemical should be phased out" The Times-Picayune March 17, 2004
• Refineries contend hydrofluoric acid is under control" Davis County Clipper October 23, 2003
• "Group is urging oil refineries to stop using deadly chemical" The Times Picayune October 15, 2003
• "Oil Refineries Pose Avoidable Risk To More Than 15 Million In U.S." US Public Interest Research Group October 14, 2003
• "Activists push to ban hydrofluoric acid in refineries" Houston Chronicle October 14, 2003
• "In the Shadow of Danger: The Chemical Plant Peril" - Philadelphia Inquirer April 20, 2003
• "Local refinery accident sends 13 to hospital" - KSTP News (St Paul, Minnesota) March 3, 2003
• "Refinery agrees to phase out use of lung-searing chemical" - The Associated Press February 10, 2003
• "Local, international activists unite against Shell" - The Natal Witness (South Africa) November 12, 2002
• "Artesia man suffers burns at Navajo Refining" - October 15, 2002
• "Under The Volcano" - Houston Press February 14, 2002
• "Crown chemical leak sends six to area hospitals" - The Pasadena Citizen December 6, 2001
• "Refinery plans for worst case: Marathon Ashland says accident could spread 25 miles" - The Beacon Journal (Ohio) February 12, 2001
• "Fluoride Release from Refinery Leads to Evacuation of Texas Neighborhood" - IFIN Bulletin #319 July 10, 2001
• "Hidden Dangers at Hudson Oil" - Hazardous Materials Management October/November 1999
• "Local Industries Release Figures on Damage 'Worst-Case' Chemical Leaks Could Cause" - St Louis Post-Dispatch June 9, 1999
• "Refinery Paints Disaster Scenes for Residents" - The Times-Picaune November 14, 1998
• "Refinery Reopening Plan Raises Concerns" - Los Angeles Times October 18, 1998
• "Torrance Residents Wary of Mobil Plan to Lessen Risk of Toxic Cloud" - Los Angeles Times February 7, 1995
• "A 'Toxic Tour of Texas'" - The Houston Chronicle January 19, 1992
• "Congressman Proposes EPA Study on Cutting Hydrofluoric Acid Use" - Los Angeles Times March 30, 1990
• "Deadly risks of lead-free petrol" - New Statesman & Society October 1988
• "Change of Acid at Refinery Would Reduce Risk, Report Says" - Los Angeles Times February 10, 1988
• "Refinery Blast Sparks Warning on Possibility of Poisonous Gas" - Release Los Angeles Times February 2, 1988
• "Acid Leak in Texas Leaves a Residue of Questions" - The New York Times December 20, 1987
• "Alert Sounded on Potentially Lethal Refinery Chemical" - Los Angeles Times December 5, 1987
• "2,000 Forced to Flee Acid Cloud at Texas Refinery; 100 Injured" - Los Angeles Times October 31, 1987

Coal Industry

• "Shut Nanticoke and other coal-fired generators, group urges" The Hamilton Spectator February 12, 2004
• Canadian polluters increased chemical releases by 20% from 1995 to 2001 Canada News Wire June 19, 2003
• In Virginia, slowdown in cutting toxic waste from factories - The Associated Press May 6, 2002
• EPA questions state permit for Peabody Energy - The Associated Press March 1, 2002
• "Ohio Leads in Pollution by Utilities" - The Cleveland Plain Dealer May 12, 2000
• "Power plants proving worst violators of pollutants" - The Associated Press June 7, 1999
• Niagara Mohawk plants among New York's top polluters - The Associated Press June 5, 1999
• BGE may be Maryland's largest polluter - The Baltimore Sun June 5, 1999
• "Utilities prepare for bad environmental news" - The Associated Press June 3, 1999
• "Fluoride Poisoning Strikes Over 45 Million Chinese" - Associated Press Worldstream September 22, 1994

Chemical Industry

• "Plants detail impact of toxic releases" The Courier-Journal June 10, 2004
• "DuPont agrees to $1.1 mln settlement over HF leak" - Reuters February 28, 2003
• "Blue Danube's Murky Future: A year after war, famed river facing toxic time bomb" - San Francisco Chronicle August 12, 2002
• "Building America's Anti-Terror Machine" - Fortune Magazine July 22, 2002
• "EPA helps city protect water from terrorists" - El Paso Times July 11, 2002
• "Bridges stay open, but on highest alert" - El Paso Times October 8, 2001
• "Quimica Fluor Speaks About Safety Issues and April Matamoros Acid Spill" - Frontera NorteSur June 2001
• "Citizens Protest Re-Opening of Acid Plant" - Frontera NorteSur J uly 2000
• "Norfluor Waste Shouldn't Pave The City" - Frontera NorteSur April 2000
• "Norfluor S.V. Under Investigation" - Frontera NorteSur December 1999/January 2000
• "Poison cloud fears grow as Allies bomb chemical sites" - The Observer May 9, 1999
• "Hazardous trades bring pollution and health fears down Mexico way" - Financial Times June 6, 1997
• "Mexico's Futuristic Nightmare" - The Toronto Star March 13, 1993
• "Profits of Doom on the Border of Blight" - The Guardian August 21, 1992
• "Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?" - New York Newsday July 12, 1992
• "Mexicans fear DuPont's Hydrofluoric Acid plant could cause 'Next Bhopal'" - Los Angeles Times November 20, 1991
• "Mexicans air concerns to Du Pont" - Wilmington News Journal June 7, 1991
• "Mexico Plant's Acid Leak was Worse than AQMD Model" - Los Angeles Times March 4, 1990

Nuclear Industry

• "Nuclear death probe - but family in the dark" - The Star August 12, 2005
• "None hurt in INEEL gas leak, evacuation" Idaho State Journal June 25, 2004
• "NRC blames radioactive leak on human error" Associated Press January 7, 2004
• "Cause of Radiation Leak Unknown" The Southern Illinoisan December 22, 2003
• "Paducah plant workers receive medical testing" The Courier Journal July 14, 2003
• "More good news for Piketon" - Chillicothe Gazette (Central Ohio) December 19, 2002
• "New Recycling Facility Will Convert Uranium Waste Cylinders in Paducah, Ky" - The Paducah Sun September 19, 2002
• "Officials Say Cleaning up Plant Site will take Years" - St Louis Post-Dispatch February 11, 2002
• "Congress Limits Survivor Benefits" - New York Times May 25, 2001
• "Poisoned Workers & Poisoned Places" - USA Today September 6-8, 2000
• Cleanup resumes at Paducah plant - The Associated Press July 13, 2000
• "Some Paducah workers were used in uranium experiments" - The Associated Press February 7, 2000
• "Fluoride, Teeth & the Atomic Bomb" - Joel Griffiths & Chris Bryson, Waste Not 414, 1997
• "Huge Tanks of Nuclear Waste Rusting Away" - The Columbus Dispatch March 10, 1996
• "Radioactive Material Leaks into Air for Three Weeks" - The Associated Press January 12, 1986
• "Lethal Acid is Product of Chemical that Leaked" - New York Times January 6, 1986

Steel Industry

• The Donora Death Fog: A Secret History of America's Worst Air Pollution Disaster - Earth Island Journal, 1998
• "Steel Plant Belches Poison" - China Daily August 8, 1998
• "Feds Probe Steel Plants: Alleghany Ludlum Accused of Violating Pollution Regulations" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette August 13, 1996
• "EPA sues Ludlum over wastewater" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette June 29, 1995
• "Burbank Admits to Lax Enforcement of Toxic Waste Rules" - Los Angeles Times May 5, 1991
• "Stop polluting Whitby's sewers, residents urge" - The Toronto Star September 7, 1989
• "EPA Charges Armco With Violations" - The Journal of Commerce October 22, 1987
• "Two Down and 22 to Go" - Washington Post May 24, 1982
• "U.S. Steel Gets Pollution Fine Of $4 Million" - Washington Post June 17, 1977
• "Fluoride Kills Ponderosa Pines" - Herald Dispatch April 30, 1970

Specialty Metal Industries

• "Soil test demand at school blocked" The Detroit News August 26, 2004
• "Farmers persist in fight with chemical company" Philadelphia Inquirer July 19, 2004
• "Renfrew firm named No. 3 water polluter" The Ottawa Citizen March 23, 2004
• "Farmers sue Cabot Corp. for alleged metal fluoride poisoning" Chemical Week September 17, 2003
• "Judge rules farmers' suit against chemical company can proceed" - The Mercury (Pennsylvania) January 18, 2003
• "EPA fines Cabot $167,000 for faulty reports" - The Pottstown Mercury (Pennsylvania) October 15, 2002
• "2 dairy farmers sue chemical plant over fluoride in Montco, PA" - The Philadelphia Inquirer September 5, 2001
• "Civil lawsuit filed against recycling company" - The Associated Press September 11, 2000
• "Pakistan: Tainted Water Cripples Villagers" - Inter Press Service September 7, 2000
• "Recycling company added to EPA 'significant violators list'" - The Associated Press May 10, 2000
• "EPA reports no environmental threat to farm area" - The Associated Press March 22, 2000
• "Molycorp regulation challenge rejected" - Associated Press January 13, 1999

Electronics Industry

• "Report of toxic spill at Phillips plant not needed" Poughkeepsie Journal August 12, 2005
• "Powdery chemical covers cars in East Fishkill" Poughkeepsie Journal, August 4, 2005
• "Legacy of pain" - The Buffalo News January 6, 2003
• "EPA Cites West Chicago Sewage Treatment Plant and Industrial Dischargers" - PR Newswire November 19, 1998

Brick Kilns

• "Plant's emissions worry neighbors" The Arizona Republic, June 18, 2005
• "Anti-brick brigade fights for more pollution controls" North Texas Daily October 14, 2003
• "Residents 'left in the dark' about emissions" The Maitland Mercury - Australia July 24, 2003
• S. Phoenix pollution tests in doubt because of rain The Arizona Republic June 20, 2003
• "Verbal bricks tossed at plant" - The Arizona Republic March 14, 2003
• "Residents give concerns at brick yard meeting" - The Arizona Republic March 12, 2003
• "County will regulate brick plant" - The Arizona Republic March 12, 2003

Incinerators

• "Davis County burn plant may escape fines for emission violations" - The Associated Press August 7, 1998

Miscellaneous

• "Endangered birds at risk after pipeline leak" The Sunday Tribune May 15, 2005
• "Derailing fish health" Valley News Dispatch February 6, 2005
• "Neighborhood saved by water" Pittsburgh Tribune-Review February 1, 2005
• "Toxic gas leak" Valley News Dispatch February 1, 2005
• "Poisonous acid leakage controlled in east China" Xinhuanet May 17, 2004
• "Warning on danger of stolen power pole rods" The Mercury Mach 1, 2004
• "Yellowstone Elk Die Early from Excessive Fluoride" Montana State University February 12, 2004
• "Hydrofluoric acid suspected in worker's death" The Oregonian January 14, 2004
• "City holds its breath as volcano bubbles" The Boston Globe December 13, 2003
• "Area evacuated over gas leak fear" The Japan Times August 6, 2003
• "Plant workers flee acid threat" - The Rockingham News May 16, 2003
• HF/Asthma Controversy in England - Compilation of articles, 2002
• "ASG Charged with violations of EPA regulations" - Nevada Appeal December 7, 2000
• "Executive: Dayton plant blast did not release toxic gases" - Nevada Appeal August 5, 2000
• "Boeing blames gas leak on use of wrong tank" - The Baltimore Sun November 7, 1995