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What do you think of the latest study showing that smelter-borne metals today pose virtually no health risk to area residents?

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The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.

Trevor Miller I'd say it sounds like pretty good news for those of us in the community with small children; good to know that an industrial toxin isn't going to be impacting my son's health. Finding the downside of less poison in our kids' blood samples seems like a tough assignment, though there is the loss of jobs that came with the smelter shutdown to consider. Closing a major source of heavy metal pollution didn't come for free; it's part of the cost of building a safer, healthier environment for everyone.

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