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Manzo spins '70s chromium story into sci-fi novel  Oct 15, 2003
Now, Manzo has turned his experience as a municipal health officer in Jersey City during the discovery of a massive chromium-contaminated site in Jersey City ... (New Jersey Journal, NJ)

New NIH-Funded Pilot Study Indicates Chromium Picolinate ...   Oct 15, 2003
Nasdaq:NXXI) -- Results of a new pilot study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showed that daily supplementation with 1,000 mcg of chromium as ... (Business Wire (press release))

New NIH-Funded Pilot Study Indicates Chromium Picolinate ...   Oct 15, 2003
NXXI - News) -- Results of a new pilot study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showed that daily supplementation with 1,000 mcg of chromium as ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Judge rejects Honeywell motion to delay toxic chromium cleanup  Oct 2, 2003
International's motion to delay his order that the high-tech manufacturer start a costly cleanup of Jersey City land contaminated decades ago by toxic chromium ... (Newsday)

Firestone Ventures completes 2003 emerald exploration program  Oct 20, 2003
Anomalous beryllium (up to 6.9 ppm) and anomalous chromium (up to 776 ppm) in soil samples are intermittent along two contour soil lines spaced approximately ... (Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada)

DEP To Host Public Hearing In Swissvale Tonight  Oct 22, 2003
...of Environmental Protection is holding a public hearing to discuss ways to clean up the former American Industrial Chromium building on Ardmore Street in ... (Pittsburgh Channel.com, PA)

Douglas still waiting for information on IP tire plan  Oct 23, 2003
The Vermont Public Interest Research Group says burning tires emits toxic heavy metals including mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, arsenic and dioxin, which ... (Newsday)

Dog and cat fur trade threatens health: lab tests  Oct 15, 2003
Humane Society International has tested the products that were on sale in Australia and we have found that they’ve tested at extremely high levels of chromium ... (ABC Online, Australia)

Is the Yucca Nuke Dump All Wet?  Oct 22, 2003
DOE relies heavily on the performance of Alloy-22, a chromium-nickel-molybdenum alloy, to endow the waste packages with a predicted 10,000 years of resistance ... (Technology Review)

Science panel questions safety of Yucca nuclear waste containers  Oct 22, 2003
The letter focuses on the performance of casks built of Alloy 22, a combination of nickel and chromium alloys with other elements including molybdenum. ... (Las Vegas Sun, NV)

Moulder takes on BMW assembly  Oct 21, 2003
Reil, the lever poses a special challenge because it is a casting of polyamide PA6 and mineral fibre filling and is subsequently galvanised with chromium. ... (Plastics and Rubber Weekly, UK)

Review: Mandrake Linux 9.2  Oct 21, 2003
...default. When I go into the 'Game Station' category of Mandrake's rpmdrake tool, I see armagetron, chromium, csmash, tuxracer. I ... (OS News)

Metals Remediation Compound (MRCâ???¢) from Regenesis Seeks to ...   Oct 22, 2003
Dissolved metals such as chromium, cadmium, nickel, mercury, copper, arsenic, and lead are found in soil and groundwater at thousands of sites in the US and ... (E-Wire (press release), TX)

Contamination problems date back almost 40 years  Oct 3, 2003
11). TDSF sampled sediment and identified contaminants including chromium, lead, ethylbenzene, tolulene and methylene chloride. ... (Dickson Herald, TN)

All mouth and no trousers  Oct 17, 2003
The passage was reminiscent of Cassandra's famous 1956 Daily Mirror article, referring to Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium ... (Guardian, UK)

State creates new air quality rules  Oct 10, 2003
...to create new air quality control rules that will focus squarely on chemicals considered most harmful to people's health, such as arsenic, benzene and chromium ... (Coos Bay World, OR)

RMC Pacific Materials fined for reporting failure  Oct 16, 2003
RMC Pacific, at 3502 Highway 1, did not report its releases of nickel and chromium in 1998, 1999 or 2000, according to Mark Merchant, an EPA spokesman in San ... (Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA)

School yard tested for contamination  Oct 16, 2003
What the nose can't pick out, and which will have to be tested for in a laboratory, is the heavy metals, like arsenic and chromium, which concerned proponents ... (Danvers Herald, MA)

DEQ aims at air health risks  Oct 10, 2003
...air. Officials say the program should target emissions of more than a dozen chemicals such as arsenic, benzene and chromium. This ... (Oregonian, OR)

Paper Co. says Vermont has little say on tire burning  Oct 17, 2003
...to water and air. According to VPIRG, burning tires leads to increased emission of mercury, chromium and arsenic. The process also ... (Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT)

Report says contaminants found outside Envirosafe  Oct 17, 2003
...referred to as PCBs. Also detected in the soil were arsenic, lead, chromium IV, selenium, and cyanide. Groundwater tests showed ... (Toledo Blade, OH)

Air Monitors Near Coronet Find No Unusual Pollutants  Oct 8, 2003
PLANT CITY - Three air monitors near Coronet Industries have detected slightly elevated levels of arsenic, cadmium and chromium, according to results released ... (Tampa Tribune, FL)

ElkCorp Reports Higher Fiscal 2004 First Quarter Results  Oct 16, 2003
...- Chromium and the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors ("GM EMD") signed a manufacturer's representation agreement under which GM EMD will promote and ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Major Lawsuits Filed Against Colfax and Durawood By Lundy & Davis ...   Oct 17, 2003
These chemicals include, but are not limited to dioxin, lead, chromium, benzene, furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phenol, naphthalene and ... (E-Wire (press release), TX)

Annual Harvest Festival and Livestock Show  Oct 9, 2003
In February, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released results of a study regarding chromium copper arsenate (CCA)-treated decks and play sets. ... (East Texas Review, TX)

International Paper: Tire decision up to New York  Oct 17, 2003
...hazard to water and air. Environmental groups say the burning of tires leads to increased emission of mercury, chromium and arsenic. (Concord Monitor, NH)

GUIDANT RECALLS LOTS OF ITS MULTI-LINK VISION STENT SYSTEM  Oct 19, 2003
It utilizes a cobalt chromium alloy so that the struts are thinner yet are similar in strength to conventional stainless steel stents. ... (Pharmexec (press release))

RMC Pacific to pay $71000 fine to EPA  Oct 15, 2003
...chemicals. Now RMC Pacific must pay $71,000 for failing to report its release of nickel and chromium during the late nineties. These ... (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL)

Sale of John Street property on hold  Oct 7, 2003
Sources of chromium contamination were removed this summer by MI Drilling of Texas, a former business at the site. MI remains responsible ... (Appleton Post Crescent, WI)

Guidant's Poor Relations  Oct 9, 2003
According to JP Morgan's Michael Weinstein, the company told him that it had stopped shipping its Vision cobalt-chromium stent on Monday, presumably because it ... (Motley Fool)

Slower stent sales hurt Guidant profits  Oct 16, 2003
Guidant began US sales in July of a cobalt-chromium stent designed to help prevent artery reclogging for about $1,500, or about 40 percent more than other ... (Indianapolis Star, IN)

Air quality  Oct 9, 2003
...will include concerns about odors, specific industrial companies, and specific air toxic pollutants including lead and lead deposition, hexavalent chromium ... (Hillsboro Argus, OR)

Pollution fails to hinder park plans  Oct 7, 2003
Researchers found limited, isolated areas on the 15-acre site contaminated with elevated levels of lead, chromium, arsenic and a petroleum-based compound that ... (Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH)

First rules on end - of - life vehicles laid before Parliament  Oct 9, 2003
...will bring in a ban on using hazardous substances in the design of new cars, particularly the heavy metals lead, mercury, cadmium or hexavalent chromium. ... (letsrecycle.com, UK)

Vandread Second Stage  Oct 9, 2003
...for the series. There's the chromium cover as well as the limited edition trading cards in early versions of the series. One other ... (Anime News Network, Canada)

Environmental Crimes Task Force Receives Presidential Award  Oct 16, 2003
Another involved the illegal discharge of sludge residues containing cyanide and chromium into a river in Sevier County, Tennessee. ... (The Chattanoogan, TN)

Little Flock Council Votes Down Deannexation For Park  Oct 15, 2003
The wellness center was to be built on land used by the Rogers Animal Shelter on Oak Street, but soil tests revealed chromium and other unsafe pollutants. ... (Morning News, AR)

Quicfrez cleanup delayed  Oct 12, 2003
The former storage and manufacturing facility has both soil and groundwater contaminants caused by past uses of heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and chromium ... (Fond du Lac Reporter, WI)

New plan for lab permit reviewed  Oct 9, 2003
But while some pollutants such as chromium, copper, lead and mercury have been added to the list of concern, others, such as trichloroethylene, have been ... (Ventura County Star, CA)

State to create new air-quality rules  Oct 11, 2003
...voted to create new air quality control rules that will focus on chemicals considered most harmful to people’s health, such as arsenic, benzene and chromium. ... (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)

Healthy home remodeling  Oct 9, 2003
...aldehydes, and styrene. Other ingredients of concern include heavy metals, such as mercury, cadmium, and chromium. In addition to ... (Environmental News Network, CA)

Scents of appeal  Oct 12, 2003
The neck of the bottle crowned with a chromium cap, is set off-centre, far to one side, evoking the free-spirited independence of the Dunhill man. ... (The Star, Malaysia)

Bills signed Friday by Gov . Gray Davis  Oct 10, 2003
Jan. 1, 2006 that contain lead, mercury, cadmium or hexavalent chromium, AB455, by Assemblywoman Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park. RAIL ... (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)

Researchers Find That Superman's Teeth Can Superconduct  Oct 15, 2003
...interpenetrating cubes of phosphorus atoms. Common metals such as iron and chromium have this structure at normal pressures. However it was not ... (Science Daily)

Cycling: Henderson sends out National warning  Oct 15, 2003
It was the 74-year-old's 17th winning of the event and with it his name appears again on the trophy, a chromium plated bully beef tin mounted on a pyramid. ... (Huddersfield Daily Examiner, UK)

Spra-Fin site subject of proposed cleanup  Oct 10, 2003
Along with TCE??? the plan document states other contaminants found at the site include heavy metals like arsenic??? chromium??? lead and cyanide from metal ... (Lansdale Reporter, PA)

Cold War graveyard  Oct 11, 2003
...of groundwater at the rock-covered site, formerly owned by Susquehanna-Western Inc., is contaminated with materials that include arsenic, cadmium, chromium ... (San Antonio Express, TX)

Today's News in 2 Minutes  Oct 10, 2003
Officials say the program should help find and limit emissions of more than a dozen chemicals such as arsenic, benzene and chromium. ... (Oregonian, OR)

EPA visits Spies Field land  Oct 15, 2003
Menominee City Manager Tony Furton said EPA officials took soil and water samples from a 2.7-acre parcel of land where chromium and lead were found several ... (Marinette Eagle Herald, WI)

North Creek salmon targeted for recovery  Oct 14, 2003
...by the Department of Ecology, the water that flows through North Creek and its smaller branches contains levels of the heavy metals lead, cadmium and chromium ... (Everett Herald, WA)

California firm collecting information  Oct 10, 2003
March 2000. It detailed Brockovich's investigation of Chromium 6 contamination in Hinkley, Calif. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was ... (Grand Island Independent, NE)

Martian History: Written in Stone  Oct 15, 2003
The relative effectiveness of the two kinds of radiation crosses over at chromium, which responds as well to either kind of radiation. ... (Astrobiology Magazine)

EPA urged to toughen battery recycling policy  Oct 1, 2003
...of used batteries are thrown into Taiwan's incinerators or landfills each year, polluting an immeasurable volume of water and air with mercury, lead, chromium ... (eTaiwan News, Taiwan)

Distraught by constant danger, Chechen residents vote today  Oct 5, 2003
GROZNY, Russia -- The old man, white-stubbled, with a mouth full of Soviet-era chromium teeth, waved his black fedora at the ruin and rubble that used to be ... (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)

JP Morgan Says Guidant Recalling Stent  Oct 8, 2003
JP Morgan analyst Michael Weinstein said the Indianapolis-based company told him the Vision cobalt-chromium stent, a tiny tubular device used to prop open ... (Reuters, UK)

Drop - top gorgeous  Oct 4, 2003
But design ruled above all. Inspired by speed boats of its time, the Merc had abundance of wood in its interior, all trimmed nicely in chromium. ... (Business Standard, India)

Four die while repairing waste water containers  Oct 7, 2003
...¡¡¡The two passed out while repairing the fourth container as there was still waste residue left in the container though it had been emptied of chromium ... (Xinhua, China)

Landowner Taking Menominee and Michigan to Court  Oct 1, 2003
Some were rusted and split open. Private testing and the city's own testing found those barrels contained high levels of chromium and lead. ... (WBAY, WI)

Waste already feeds PV fields  Oct 1, 2003
Holmgren said NDEP requires a test for 10 metals in the reused sludge: arsenic, cadmium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel and selenium ... (Pahrump Valley Times, NV)

Spies parties plan to meet, lawsuit on hold  Oct 3, 2003
But in June, Dale Pape, a Krygoski associate, said that he had sent soil samples from the land to a Wisconsin testing firm, and that chromium and lead were ... (Marinette Eagle Herald, WI)

Chechen election nears as residents distraught by danger  Oct 1, 2003
GROZNY, Russia - The old man, white-stubbled, with a mouth full of Soviet-era chromium teeth, waved his black fedora at the ruin and rubble that used to be his ... (Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, CA)

New Medtronic stent wins approval  Oct 2, 2003
...arteries. The Food and Drug Administration approved Medtronic's Driver coronary stent, which is made of a cobalt-chromium alloy. ... (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)

Avila Gets Third Snaffle Bit Futurity Championship  Oct 6, 2003
Champion just two points behind with a 658 point composite (Herd _ 214, Rein _ 222.5, Cow _ 221.5) was Gainesville, Texas trainer, Ron Ralls, on Chromium ... (Practical Horseman Magazine)

Mae Moh water poisoned, villagers near mine at risk  Oct 4, 2003
A report prepared by the Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning Office revealed the amounts of arsenic, chromium and manganese in almost all ... (Bangkok Post, Thailand)

Locals fight developer's dream  Sep 30, 2003
The site, occupied by an upholstery business and a pet supply store, is contaminated with levels of arsenic, chromium, copper, lead and other compounds that ... (New Zealand Herald, New Zealand)

Environmentalists back coal ash bill State House News Service  Oct 6, 2003
The ash is known to contain arsenic, mercury, chromium and barium, all damaging to the nervous system and can be cancer-causing agents, said Lisa Evans ... (Providence Journal Bulletin (subscription), RI)

Environmentalists step up lobby campaign v. coal plant  Oct 3, 2003
...fired power plants in the country that is either financed in part or backed by JBIC revealed high levels of mercury and other heavy metals (arsenic, chromium ... (Sun Star, Philippines)

Aptos chamber honors those making a difference  Oct 5, 2003
Accomplishments there include: ensuring a reliable and safe water supply; responding favorably to the discovery of chromium-6 in six water wells; implementing ... (Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA)

Company Information Center  Oct 2, 2003
...ending June 2003). The Driver Coronary Stent leverages Medtronic's long-standing expertise using cobalt chromium alloys. This alloy ... (Business Wire (press release))

Eramet official: Emissions report no cause for concern  Oct 3, 2003
13, concluded the air tested consistently higher than recommended screening levels for arsenic, manganese and chromium and posed a potential health threat. ... (Marietta Times, OH)

Utility drills down to test water for Fruit Valley well  Oct 2, 2003
...had to temporarily shut down some Hazel Dell wells because state and federal hydrologists fear steady pumping could pull underground contaminants -- chromium ... (Oregonian, OR)

Senior housing plan vote delayed  Oct 2, 2003
She raised concerns about test results that revealed chromium and lead in the property's groundwater. A consultant for the developer conducted the tests. ... (Vineland Daily Journal, NJ)

Immersing idols, dumping rules  Oct 5, 2003
These synthetic paints are the perfect recipe for doom. They contain heavy metals like Chromium, Lead, Titanium, Iron and Zinc. ... (Delhi Newsline, India)

MIV Therapeutics Inc. to be Featured on EuroNews Television  Oct 8, 2003
British Columbia. MIVT's Nano-Film Coating successfully passed animal trials on both stainless steel and cobalt-chromium stents. The ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Park Island dock proposal raises concerns  Oct 7, 2003
Wooden docks, he says, are treated with chemicals that leech into the water. More docks translate into more arsenic, chromium and copper. ... (Charleston Post Courier, SC)

Onteora questions impact of bridge shop  Oct 7, 2003
...into compliance with our health." He said industry reports have cited concerns over welding emissions that include arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium ... (Kingston Daily Freeman, NY)

HOP CLOSED AS A PRECAUTION  Oct 8, 2003
Researchers have found that sealing wood treated with the chromated copper arsenate with three common coatings reduces leaching of arsenic, chromium and copper ... (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)

New spine treatment starts trials  Oct 2, 2003
Palm Beach Gardens neurosurgeon Charles S. Theofilos this week for the first time surgically implanted chromium-cobalt metal low back discs that may provide ... (South Florida Business Journal, FL)

Ten Delicious Dishes to Help Defeat Diabetes  24 Oct 2003
10) Basmati and Wild Rice Pilaf (http://www.pcrm.org/health/recipes/recipe030602.html) – Whole grains and nuts are good sources of chromium. ... (NewswiseNewswise (press release), VA)

Downtown Elementary School May Be Facing Illness Cluster  24 Oct 2003
The monitoring equipment sits atop a portable classroom at the school. Chromium 6 levels have been found to be just slightly elevated. ... (Northeast Observer, CA)

The planet's polluters should be put in the dock  24 Oct 2003
...depredations of Shell in the Nigerian delta, illegal logging in south-east Asia and South America, chemical spills as at Djibouti from the loading of chromium ... (Guardian, UK)

Trading Begins for the Common Shares of WindsorTech, Inc.  24 Oct 2003
...of IT assets can run to $10,000 per toxin; the typical computer system contains ten known toxins including Lead, Cadmium, Mercury, and Hexavalent Chromium, all ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Drama and design  24 Oct 2003
Two fat drum columns wait for installation; a curved wall, sweeping ceiling molding and a marvelous chromium-capped stairway railing with wave motif consort to ... (Buffalo News, NY)

Students put byte on UW over impact of computer disposal  24 Oct 2003
Becklund noted that hazardous materials in personal computers include lead, used in circuit board solder; cadmium, an ingredient in plastic coatings; chromium 6 ... (The Capital Times, WI)

MAE MOH POWER PLANT: Villagers seeking relocation  24 Oct 2003
...it conducted last year, said the water in Huay Sai and Huay Kham reservoirs in Mae Moh district contained more than double the levels of alkalis, chromium and ... (The Nation, Thailand, Thailand)

River dredging project slowed  24 Oct 2003
...extremely high levels of some contaminants, including mercury in one sample, chromium in a few samples, and PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in nearly ... (Dover Community News, NH)

DOWNTOWN ST. PAUL: Ecolab Plaza's rusty sculpture may shine once ...   24 Oct 2003
...assess what happened to "Skygate." The consensus: To achieve a matted, brushed look desired by the artist, the sculpture's fabricators sanded off the chromium ... (St. Paul Pioneer Press, MN)

Manzo spins '70s chromium story into sci-fi novel  Oct 15, 2003
Now, Manzo has turned his experience as a municipal health officer in Jersey City during the discovery of a massive chromium-contaminated site in Jersey City ... (New Jersey Journal, NJ)

New NIH-Funded Pilot Study Indicates Chromium Picolinate ...   Oct 15, 2003
Nasdaq:NXXI) -- Results of a new pilot study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showed that daily supplementation with 1,000 mcg of chromium as ... (Business Wire (press release))

New NIH-Funded Pilot Study Indicates Chromium Picolinate ...   Oct 15, 2003
NXXI - News) -- Results of a new pilot study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) showed that daily supplementation with 1,000 mcg of chromium as ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Judge rejects Honeywell motion to delay toxic chromium cleanup  Oct 2, 2003
International's motion to delay his order that the high-tech manufacturer start a costly cleanup of Jersey City land contaminated decades ago by toxic chromium ... (Newsday)

Firestone Ventures completes 2003 emerald exploration program  Oct 20, 2003
Anomalous beryllium (up to 6.9 ppm) and anomalous chromium (up to 776 ppm) in soil samples are intermittent along two contour soil lines spaced approximately ... (Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada)

DEP To Host Public Hearing In Swissvale Tonight  Oct 22, 2003
...of Environmental Protection is holding a public hearing to discuss ways to clean up the former American Industrial Chromium building on Ardmore Street in ... (Pittsburgh Channel.com, PA)

Douglas still waiting for information on IP tire plan  Oct 23, 2003
The Vermont Public Interest Research Group says burning tires emits toxic heavy metals including mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, arsenic and dioxin, which ... (Newsday)

Dog and cat fur trade threatens health: lab tests  Oct 15, 2003
Humane Society International has tested the products that were on sale in Australia and we have found that they’ve tested at extremely high levels of chromium ... (ABC Online, Australia)

Is the Yucca Nuke Dump All Wet?  Oct 22, 2003
DOE relies heavily on the performance of Alloy-22, a chromium-nickel-molybdenum alloy, to endow the waste packages with a predicted 10,000 years of resistance ... (Technology Review)

Science panel questions safety of Yucca nuclear waste containers  Oct 22, 2003
The letter focuses on the performance of casks built of Alloy 22, a combination of nickel and chromium alloys with other elements including molybdenum. ... (Las Vegas Sun, NV)

Moulder takes on BMW assembly  Oct 21, 2003
Reil, the lever poses a special challenge because it is a casting of polyamide PA6 and mineral fibre filling and is subsequently galvanised with chromium. ... (Plastics and Rubber Weekly, UK)

Review: Mandrake Linux 9.2  Oct 21, 2003
...default. When I go into the 'Game Station' category of Mandrake's rpmdrake tool, I see armagetron, chromium, csmash, tuxracer. I ... (OS News)

Metals Remediation Compound (MRCâ???¢) from Regenesis Seeks to ...   Oct 22, 2003
Dissolved metals such as chromium, cadmium, nickel, mercury, copper, arsenic, and lead are found in soil and groundwater at thousands of sites in the US and ... (E-Wire (press release), TX)

Contamination problems date back almost 40 years  Oct 3, 2003
11). TDSF sampled sediment and identified contaminants including chromium, lead, ethylbenzene, tolulene and methylene chloride. ... (Dickson Herald, TN)

All mouth and no trousers  Oct 17, 2003
The passage was reminiscent of Cassandra's famous 1956 Daily Mirror article, referring to Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium ... (Guardian, UK)

State creates new air quality rules  Oct 10, 2003
...to create new air quality control rules that will focus squarely on chemicals considered most harmful to people's health, such as arsenic, benzene and chromium ... (Coos Bay World, OR)

RMC Pacific Materials fined for reporting failure  Oct 16, 2003
RMC Pacific, at 3502 Highway 1, did not report its releases of nickel and chromium in 1998, 1999 or 2000, according to Mark Merchant, an EPA spokesman in San ... (Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA)

School yard tested for contamination  Oct 16, 2003
What the nose can't pick out, and which will have to be tested for in a laboratory, is the heavy metals, like arsenic and chromium, which concerned proponents ... (Danvers Herald, MA)

DEQ aims at air health risks  Oct 10, 2003
...air. Officials say the program should target emissions of more than a dozen chemicals such as arsenic, benzene and chromium. This ... (Oregonian, OR)

Paper Co. says Vermont has little say on tire burning  Oct 17, 2003
...to water and air. According to VPIRG, burning tires leads to increased emission of mercury, chromium and arsenic. The process also ... (Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT)

Report says contaminants found outside Envirosafe  Oct 17, 2003
...referred to as PCBs. Also detected in the soil were arsenic, lead, chromium IV, selenium, and cyanide. Groundwater tests showed ... (Toledo Blade, OH)

Air Monitors Near Coronet Find No Unusual Pollutants  Oct 8, 2003
PLANT CITY - Three air monitors near Coronet Industries have detected slightly elevated levels of arsenic, cadmium and chromium, according to results released ... (Tampa Tribune, FL)

ElkCorp Reports Higher Fiscal 2004 First Quarter Results  Oct 16, 2003
...- Chromium and the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors ("GM EMD") signed a manufacturer's representation agreement under which GM EMD will promote and ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Major Lawsuits Filed Against Colfax and Durawood By Lundy & Davis ...   Oct 17, 2003
These chemicals include, but are not limited to dioxin, lead, chromium, benzene, furans, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phenol, naphthalene and ... (E-Wire (press release), TX)

Annual Harvest Festival and Livestock Show  Oct 9, 2003
In February, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) released results of a study regarding chromium copper arsenate (CCA)-treated decks and play sets. ... (East Texas Review, TX)

International Paper: Tire decision up to New York  Oct 17, 2003
...hazard to water and air. Environmental groups say the burning of tires leads to increased emission of mercury, chromium and arsenic. (Concord Monitor, NH)

GUIDANT RECALLS LOTS OF ITS MULTI-LINK VISION STENT SYSTEM  Oct 19, 2003
It utilizes a cobalt chromium alloy so that the struts are thinner yet are similar in strength to conventional stainless steel stents. ... (Pharmexec (press release))

RMC Pacific to pay $71000 fine to EPA  Oct 15, 2003
...chemicals. Now RMC Pacific must pay $71,000 for failing to report its release of nickel and chromium during the late nineties. These ... (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL)

Sale of John Street property on hold  Oct 7, 2003
Sources of chromium contamination were removed this summer by MI Drilling of Texas, a former business at the site. MI remains responsible ... (Appleton Post Crescent, WI)

Guidant's Poor Relations  Oct 9, 2003
According to JP Morgan's Michael Weinstein, the company told him that it had stopped shipping its Vision cobalt-chromium stent on Monday, presumably because it ... (Motley Fool)

Slower stent sales hurt Guidant profits  Oct 16, 2003
Guidant began US sales in July of a cobalt-chromium stent designed to help prevent artery reclogging for about $1,500, or about 40 percent more than other ... (Indianapolis Star, IN)

Air quality  Oct 9, 2003
...will include concerns about odors, specific industrial companies, and specific air toxic pollutants including lead and lead deposition, hexavalent chromium ... (Hillsboro Argus, OR)

Pollution fails to hinder park plans  Oct 7, 2003
Researchers found limited, isolated areas on the 15-acre site contaminated with elevated levels of lead, chromium, arsenic and a petroleum-based compound that ... (Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH)

First rules on end - of - life vehicles laid before Parliament  Oct 9, 2003
...will bring in a ban on using hazardous substances in the design of new cars, particularly the heavy metals lead, mercury, cadmium or hexavalent chromium. ... (letsrecycle.com, UK)

Vandread Second Stage  Oct 9, 2003
...for the series. There's the chromium cover as well as the limited edition trading cards in early versions of the series. One other ... (Anime News Network, Canada)

Environmental Crimes Task Force Receives Presidential Award  Oct 16, 2003
Another involved the illegal discharge of sludge residues containing cyanide and chromium into a river in Sevier County, Tennessee. ... (The Chattanoogan, TN)

Little Flock Council Votes Down Deannexation For Park  Oct 15, 2003
The wellness center was to be built on land used by the Rogers Animal Shelter on Oak Street, but soil tests revealed chromium and other unsafe pollutants. ... (Morning News, AR)

Quicfrez cleanup delayed  Oct 12, 2003
The former storage and manufacturing facility has both soil and groundwater contaminants caused by past uses of heavy metals such as lead, arsenic and chromium ... (Fond du Lac Reporter, WI)

New plan for lab permit reviewed  Oct 9, 2003
But while some pollutants such as chromium, copper, lead and mercury have been added to the list of concern, others, such as trichloroethylene, have been ... (Ventura County Star, CA)

State to create new air-quality rules  Oct 11, 2003
...voted to create new air quality control rules that will focus on chemicals considered most harmful to people’s health, such as arsenic, benzene and chromium. ... (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)

Healthy home remodeling  Oct 9, 2003
...aldehydes, and styrene. Other ingredients of concern include heavy metals, such as mercury, cadmium, and chromium. In addition to ... (Environmental News Network, CA)

Scents of appeal  Oct 12, 2003
The neck of the bottle crowned with a chromium cap, is set off-centre, far to one side, evoking the free-spirited independence of the Dunhill man. ... (The Star, Malaysia)

Bills signed Friday by Gov . Gray Davis  Oct 10, 2003
Jan. 1, 2006 that contain lead, mercury, cadmium or hexavalent chromium, AB455, by Assemblywoman Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park. RAIL ... (San Francisco Chronicle, CA)

Researchers Find That Superman's Teeth Can Superconduct  Oct 15, 2003
...interpenetrating cubes of phosphorus atoms. Common metals such as iron and chromium have this structure at normal pressures. However it was not ... (Science Daily)

Cycling: Henderson sends out National warning  Oct 15, 2003
It was the 74-year-old's 17th winning of the event and with it his name appears again on the trophy, a chromium plated bully beef tin mounted on a pyramid. ... (Huddersfield Daily Examiner, UK)

Spra-Fin site subject of proposed cleanup  Oct 10, 2003
Along with TCE??? the plan document states other contaminants found at the site include heavy metals like arsenic??? chromium??? lead and cyanide from metal ... (Lansdale Reporter, PA)

Cold War graveyard  Oct 11, 2003
...of groundwater at the rock-covered site, formerly owned by Susquehanna-Western Inc., is contaminated with materials that include arsenic, cadmium, chromium ... (San Antonio Express, TX)

Today's News in 2 Minutes  Oct 10, 2003
Officials say the program should help find and limit emissions of more than a dozen chemicals such as arsenic, benzene and chromium. ... (Oregonian, OR)

EPA visits Spies Field land  Oct 15, 2003
Menominee City Manager Tony Furton said EPA officials took soil and water samples from a 2.7-acre parcel of land where chromium and lead were found several ... (Marinette Eagle Herald, WI)

North Creek salmon targeted for recovery  Oct 14, 2003
...by the Department of Ecology, the water that flows through North Creek and its smaller branches contains levels of the heavy metals lead, cadmium and chromium ... (Everett Herald, WA)

California firm collecting information  Oct 10, 2003
March 2000. It detailed Brockovich's investigation of Chromium 6 contamination in Hinkley, Calif. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. was ... (Grand Island Independent, NE)

Martian History: Written in Stone  Oct 15, 2003
The relative effectiveness of the two kinds of radiation crosses over at chromium, which responds as well to either kind of radiation. ... (Astrobiology Magazine)

EPA urged to toughen battery recycling policy  Oct 1, 2003
...of used batteries are thrown into Taiwan's incinerators or landfills each year, polluting an immeasurable volume of water and air with mercury, lead, chromium ... (eTaiwan News, Taiwan)

Distraught by constant danger, Chechen residents vote today  Oct 5, 2003
GROZNY, Russia -- The old man, white-stubbled, with a mouth full of Soviet-era chromium teeth, waved his black fedora at the ruin and rubble that used to be ... (Salt Lake Tribune, UT)

JP Morgan Says Guidant Recalling Stent  Oct 8, 2003
JP Morgan analyst Michael Weinstein said the Indianapolis-based company told him the Vision cobalt-chromium stent, a tiny tubular device used to prop open ... (Reuters, UK)

Drop - top gorgeous  Oct 4, 2003
But design ruled above all. Inspired by speed boats of its time, the Merc had abundance of wood in its interior, all trimmed nicely in chromium. ... (Business Standard, India)

Four die while repairing waste water containers  Oct 7, 2003
...¡¡¡The two passed out while repairing the fourth container as there was still waste residue left in the container though it had been emptied of chromium ... (Xinhua, China)

Landowner Taking Menominee and Michigan to Court  Oct 1, 2003
Some were rusted and split open. Private testing and the city's own testing found those barrels contained high levels of chromium and lead. ... (WBAY, WI)

Waste already feeds PV fields  Oct 1, 2003
Holmgren said NDEP requires a test for 10 metals in the reused sludge: arsenic, cadmium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel and selenium ... (Pahrump Valley Times, NV)

Spies parties plan to meet, lawsuit on hold  Oct 3, 2003
But in June, Dale Pape, a Krygoski associate, said that he had sent soil samples from the land to a Wisconsin testing firm, and that chromium and lead were ... (Marinette Eagle Herald, WI)

Chechen election nears as residents distraught by danger  Oct 1, 2003
GROZNY, Russia - The old man, white-stubbled, with a mouth full of Soviet-era chromium teeth, waved his black fedora at the ruin and rubble that used to be his ... (Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, CA)

New Medtronic stent wins approval  Oct 2, 2003
...arteries. The Food and Drug Administration approved Medtronic's Driver coronary stent, which is made of a cobalt-chromium alloy. ... (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)

Avila Gets Third Snaffle Bit Futurity Championship  Oct 6, 2003
Champion just two points behind with a 658 point composite (Herd _ 214, Rein _ 222.5, Cow _ 221.5) was Gainesville, Texas trainer, Ron Ralls, on Chromium ... (Practical Horseman Magazine)

Mae Moh water poisoned, villagers near mine at risk  Oct 4, 2003
A report prepared by the Natural Resources and Environmental Policy and Planning Office revealed the amounts of arsenic, chromium and manganese in almost all ... (Bangkok Post, Thailand)

Locals fight developer's dream  Sep 30, 2003
The site, occupied by an upholstery business and a pet supply store, is contaminated with levels of arsenic, chromium, copper, lead and other compounds that ... (New Zealand Herald, New Zealand)

Environmentalists back coal ash bill State House News Service  Oct 6, 2003
The ash is known to contain arsenic, mercury, chromium and barium, all damaging to the nervous system and can be cancer-causing agents, said Lisa Evans ... (Providence Journal Bulletin (subscription), RI)

Environmentalists step up lobby campaign v. coal plant  Oct 3, 2003
...fired power plants in the country that is either financed in part or backed by JBIC revealed high levels of mercury and other heavy metals (arsenic, chromium ... (Sun Star, Philippines)

Aptos chamber honors those making a difference  Oct 5, 2003
Accomplishments there include: ensuring a reliable and safe water supply; responding favorably to the discovery of chromium-6 in six water wells; implementing ... (Santa Cruz Sentinel, CA)

Company Information Center  Oct 2, 2003
...ending June 2003). The Driver Coronary Stent leverages Medtronic's long-standing expertise using cobalt chromium alloys. This alloy ... (Business Wire (press release))

Eramet official: Emissions report no cause for concern  Oct 3, 2003
13, concluded the air tested consistently higher than recommended screening levels for arsenic, manganese and chromium and posed a potential health threat. ... (Marietta Times, OH)

Utility drills down to test water for Fruit Valley well  Oct 2, 2003
...had to temporarily shut down some Hazel Dell wells because state and federal hydrologists fear steady pumping could pull underground contaminants -- chromium ... (Oregonian, OR)

Senior housing plan vote delayed  Oct 2, 2003
She raised concerns about test results that revealed chromium and lead in the property's groundwater. A consultant for the developer conducted the tests. ... (Vineland Daily Journal, NJ)

Immersing idols, dumping rules  Oct 5, 2003
These synthetic paints are the perfect recipe for doom. They contain heavy metals like Chromium, Lead, Titanium, Iron and Zinc. ... (Delhi Newsline, India)

MIV Therapeutics Inc. to be Featured on EuroNews Television  Oct 8, 2003
British Columbia. MIVT's Nano-Film Coating successfully passed animal trials on both stainless steel and cobalt-chromium stents. The ... (Yahoo News (press release))

Park Island dock proposal raises concerns  Oct 7, 2003
Wooden docks, he says, are treated with chemicals that leech into the water. More docks translate into more arsenic, chromium and copper. ... (Charleston Post Courier, SC)

Onteora questions impact of bridge shop  Oct 7, 2003
...into compliance with our health." He said industry reports have cited concerns over welding emissions that include arsenic, barium, beryllium, cadmium, chromium ... (Kingston Daily Freeman, NY)

HOP CLOSED AS A PRECAUTION  Oct 8, 2003
Researchers have found that sealing wood treated with the chromated copper arsenate with three common coatings reduces leaching of arsenic, chromium and copper ... (East Aurora Advertiser, NY)

New spine treatment starts trials  Oct 2, 2003
Palm Beach Gardens neurosurgeon Charles S. Theofilos this week for the first time surgically implanted chromium-cobalt metal low back discs that may provide ... (South Florida Business Journal, FL)


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