Fluoride levels will be reduced in Baltimore’s drinking water system due to national supply chain challenges impacting hydrofluorosilicic acid, the city’s Department of Public Works (DPW) said Monday. The move will impact residents served by the city’s water system, including some in Baltimore and Howard counties. Fluoride levels will be dropped from .7 milligrams to […]
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Birmingham says water utility’s ‘filthy hands’ created fluoride crisis and now must fix it
Birmingham city leaders say the region’s water utility created the fluoride problem that it is now refusing to fix. City attorneys are making their final pitch in court, asking Jefferson County Circuit Judge Frederic Bolling to order Central Alabama Water to resume adding fluoride and to declare the situation a public nuisance. The request comes […]
Exclusive: ‘Michigan’s RFK Jr.’ Says Critics Will Someday Appreciate What He’s Doing to Protect Patient Rights
A Michigan county public health official is making waves for his efforts to reform public health to better serve his community. Dr. Remington Nevin, dubbed “Michigan’s ‘RFK Jr.’” by Bridge Michigan, is an epidemiologist with multiple degrees from Johns Hopkins University. A former U.S. Army major and preventive medicine officer, he now serves as medical […]
Bill to let voters eliminate fluoride in water advances to House
Voters are now one step closer to deciding whether fluoride is added to their drinking water. On Wednesday, the Louisiana Senate approved a bill 26-7 to allow any public water system to opt out of fluoridating drinking water if voters approve it. The bill will now head to the House of Representatives for a vote. The […]
How RFK’s War on Fluoride Is Taking Over the Dentist’s Office
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has maintained that the target of his war on fluoride is ingested fluoride — specifically that from fluoridated drinking water and oral supplements. But the misinformed policy efforts to ban community water fluoridation and restrict access to fluoride supplements are having spillover effects in dentists’ offices. Twenty […]
RFK Jr is launching a podcast to expose ‘lies’ that have made Americans sick
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin “a new era of radical transparency in government,” according to a teaser video first obtained by The Associated Press. The show, titled “The Secretary Kennedy Podcast,” will launch next week and feature Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine crusader who has […]
La. Senate goes full ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ OKs anti-fluoride bill
The Louisiana state Senate April 8 approved a bill to allow voters in the grips of a conservative conspiracy theory fever dream to halt water fluoridization in their local water districts, despite clear evidence that these programs are perfectly safe and do not, as opponents have often claimed, make people dumb, docile or gay. Sponsored […]
Hanover borough will host town hall meeting to discuss potential removal of fluoride from drinking water supply
HANOVER, Pa. — The Borough of Hanover will hold a town hall meeting later this month to discuss the potential removal of fluoride from the drinking water supply. Borough Manager Margie Lewis and Council President Tim Kress announced the meeting will be held from 6-8 p.m. on April 29 at the Borough Council Chambers in […]
Chambersburg Health Board to look at possible recommendations on water fluorination
CHAMBERSBURG- The Board of Health is mulling a possible recommendation to Chambersburg Borough Council regarding the municipality’s current use of fluorination in their water supply. The Board will hear a report on Thursday, April 9th from the Borough Water Utility about the condition of the chemical feed system at the Julio D. Lecuona Water Treatment […]
Fluoride Squeeze: WSSC Cuts Levels For 1.9 Million Suburban DC Residents
Nearly 1.9 million people in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties are getting a little less fluoride in their tap water, at least for now. WSSC Water says it is temporarily lowering the amount of fluoride it adds to drinking water from about 0.7 milligrams per liter to roughly 0.4 mg/L while it waits for regular […]