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Ohio: Honeywell ramping up to reopen; Metropolis plant will start up in June
Honeywell is calling back employees for a scheduled June reopening of its Metropolis plant. The chemical plant converts uranium ore into uranium hexafluoride, UF6, a compound used to produce enriched uranium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants. About 135 salaried and 135 hourly employees will be in place when the Metropolis Works facility [...]
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Ohio Valley: Bilott DuPont largely ignored EPA on C8 issues
OHIO VALLEY — Many questions remain about the C8 contamination that has spread through the valley as a result of industrial activity at DuPont Washington Works near Parkersburg, West Virginia. For instance, the controversy began with the deaths of an entire herd of cattle, yet the company is so far refusing to provide EPA-requested testing [...]
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Columbus Fluoridation: Fifty Years Ago Today, January 30, 1963
Fluoridation The Muscogee County Medical Society last night overwhelmingly endorsed fluoridation of the water supply here for the sixth successive time. Monday, City Commission passed an ordinance by 3-2 vote which stated that the City of Columbus will not fluoridate the water supply here.
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Ohioans’ lawsuits blame diseases on DuPont
26 lawsuits here cite chemical that plant discharged into river Hundreds of people in southern Ohio who say a DuPont chemical plant across the Ohio River contaminated their water and caused their health problems are suing the company in federal court in Columbus. They say that C8, a chemical used to make Teflon at the [...]
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Fairborn: Council orders materials for new year
Excerpt: FAIRBORN — Cities often join with other cities for purchasing large quantities of needed material at a lower price. To that end Fairborn joined with the Southwest Ohio Purchasers for Government (SWOPAG) in soliciting bids for bulk quantities of water treatment chemicals for 2013. According to Karen Hawkins, utilizes supervisor the needed chemicals included [...]
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C8 suits moved to federal court
Four lawsuits by Athens County residents, filed last month in county Common Pleas Court against the giant chemical firm E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., have been transferred into federal court. The company has answered the suits, claiming it didn’t knowingly poison anyone, and asking that a federal judge throw the complaints out of court. [...]
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Dentists can tell whose drinking water is fluoridated
Dr. Anthony DiNapoli says he has little trouble identifying whether his new patients grew up outside Lancaster when he peers into their mouths. “You weren’t born here, were you?” he sometimes asks those whose mouths are free of dental work. Too often, DiNapoli said, fillings riddle the teeth of Lancaster natives, a telltale sign of [...]
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Many in Appalachia suffer dental woes that start early and last a lifetime
MARIETTA, Ohio — Some of the adult patients at the Southeastern Ohio Dental Clinic didn’t see a dentist once during childhood. Children as young as 5 have had to have all their baby teeth pulled. Patients in their 20s sometimes need dentures. Often, the only thing that brings them there is pain that won’t relent [...]
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Dozens of personal injury lawsuits filed against DuPont
OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown [...]
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Dozens of personal injury lawsuits filed against DuPont
OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown [...]
United States, Ohio Perfluorinated chemicals