In order to comply with a request from the Department of Environmental Protection, Pennsylvania American Water will be conducting a one-time, week-long test to confirm water disinfection efficiency. The test will use a low concentration (1 mg/L) of fluoride as a tracer to verify the disinfection contact time (CT) through the finished water storage tanks […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
In Odisha’s Mayurbhanj, excess fluoride in drinking water is causing widespread fluorosis in several villages
Children with stained teeth, women bent double, men crippled — this is the harsh reality for several village residents in Budhikhamari panchayat of Mayurbhanj district, Odisha, where high fluoride levels in drinking water are causing severe health issues and relentless pain. Water testing by the INREM Foundation in hamlets of this panchayat, including two government […]
UCP members pass resolutions on auto insurance, abortion, clean coal
Members of Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party (UCP) voted in favour of a series of resolutions Saturday including repealing the province’s forthcoming auto insurance changes, returning to using coal as an energy source, and banning the fluoridation of public water. More than 4,000 UCP members are gathering in Edmonton this weekend for the party’s annual […]
Ivittuut – Greenland’s forgotten cryolite capital
From Arctic hamlet to globally significant settlement On the southwestern edge of Greenland, on the quiet Arsuk Fjord, lies Ivittuut – today an abandoned, windswept settlement. Yet once, this place was a center of global industrial history. The reason for this was an extraordinary mineral – cryolite. The Inuit of the region knew the white, […]
Australian hydrogen fluoride plant receives full funding
A hydrogen fluoride pilot plant being established by ABx Group, via subsidiary ALCORE, in Australia is now fully funded to operate. The plant will be used to demonstrate a process to produce hydrogen fluoride from a by-product of the aluminium smelting process. Abx CEO, Mark Cooksey, said: “We are enthusiastic about completing the hydrogen fluoride […]
Atlantic Beach to discontinue fluoride treatment of water
ATLANTIC BEACH — As part of its November consent agenda, the Atlantic Beach Town Council passed a resolution to discontinue fluoride treatment of town water. The decision to stop treating the town’s water with fluoride is partly a result of ongoing efforts to rehabilitate the water treatment plant, according to Town Manager John O’Daniel. The […]
The Quiet Chemistry of Childhood
Every few months, a new fluoride study drops—another twist in a debate that has stretched across generations. Some studies praise fluoride for protecting teeth. Others warn about possible harm to the developing brain. And a few arrive with the promise that this one has finally settled the issue. The latest comes from Robert John Warren […]
NRDC Tells 9th Circ. EPA Would ‘Neuter’ Public TSCA Rights
( November 25, 2025, 2:40 PM EST) — The Natural Resources Defense Council has asked the Ninth Circuit to reject the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency’s narrow reading of citizen enforcement rights under the Toxic… Original article online at: https://www.law360.com/california/articles/2415291/nrdc-tells-9th-circ-epa-would-neuter-public-tsca-rights?about=california
The Sugar Scandal – with Chris Neurath
The powerful sugar industry has spent years downplaying the health impacts of sugar and promoting the use of fluoride in public water supplies. In the news this week, Patti and Doug talk about a new warning on plastic pollution and children’s health, how play sand in Australia has been found to be laced with asbestos, […]
Fluoride and freedom: The social costs of efforts to de-fluoridate Queensland’s public water supplies
The story of how Queensland fought for, but is now losing, its fluoridated water is a fascinating window into the historical anomalies that come with federalism and how complex debates are managed in local councils today. The de-fluoridation of Queensland, so soon after its implementation across most of the state, speaks volumes about the ways in which […]