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AQMD: Not enough data to prove safety of deadly toxic chemical used at Torrance refinery
Southern California’s air quality watchdog has become the latest regulatory agency to cast doubt on the safety of a potentially deadly chemical used at the Torrance refinery, concluding there is not enough evidence to dismiss concerns that a toxic cloud could form and kill or injure tens of thousands. South Coast Air Quality Management District […]
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Albuquerque: Fluoride could be added to metro’s drinking water; final vote tonight
Citizens will be able to weigh in on a proposed plan that would once again add more fluoride to drinking water in Albuquerque. Members of the water authority board are expected to make a final vote on a plan to spend more than $200,000 for equipment and facilities to allow the city to resume fluoridation. […]
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Port Angeles: Council Candidates Discuss Fluoridation Issue
PORT ANGELES — Two candidates vying for a seat on the Port Angeles City Council agreed Tuesday the city should eschew second-class status and encourage economic development and weighed in on an avigation easement for William R. Fairchild Memorial Airport. Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin and Artur Wojnowski disagreed on how to answer a Nov. 7 advisory vote […]
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Delhi: Handpumps, tubewells to be sealed in areas where groundwater is contaminated
The state government would soon crack down on extraction of groundwater in areas where the water has been found to be contaminated. Earlier this year, a report placed in the Lok Sabha revealed that groundwater in several parts of Delhi is contaminated with arsenic and fluoride. Heavy metals such as lead, cadmium and chromium have […]
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Israel’s fluoridation supply expected to be restored after three years
Note from Fluoride Action Network: The former Minister of Health, Yael German of the Yesh Atid political party, was smart and progressive and in taking her office in 2013 she began a process than ended mandatory fluoridation in Israel. She replaced Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, who was the nominal Minister of Health […]
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Prioritise groundwater
Groundwater has been the lifeline for millions across the country. As much as 80% of rural and 50% of the urban population of India depend on groundwater for domestic and irrigation purposes. Karnataka is not an exception. As much as 99% of the state is covered by hard rock aquifer, except in coastal areas where […]
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Netherlands going forward with thorium reactor research
The first phase of a Salt Irradiation Experiment (SALIENT) has begun at the Nuclear Research and Consultancy Group in Petten, a nuclear research facility along the North Sea coast in the Netherlands. The experiment is being carried out with the cooperation of the European Commission Laboratory Joint Research Center-ITU (JRC) in Karlsruhe, Germany with the […]
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Frankford lands local oversight with well-drilling ordinance
FRANKFORD – Lacking municipal teeth currently at the state level, the town of Frankford has gone the local route for authority over well-drilling within town limits. Town council at its Aug. 7 meeting approved Ordinance 34 following second reading by council president Joanne Bacon. The local ordinance gives the town authority to approve or deny […]
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Lockport: City to conduct maintenance of fluoride feed system
The city of Lockport will spend $60,000 to make improvements to its fluoride feed system at the water treatment plant. The city previously received a $50,000 grant through the New York State Department of Health, with a $60,000 local contribution, for the project. Hohl Industrial Services, Inc. was selected for the work after it submitted […]
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DIFFERING PERSPECTIVES ON WATER FLUORIDATION
Fair use excerpts from this lengthy article: According to a University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry, Water Fluoridation: Questions and Answers, “42.6% of Canada’s population, on public water supplies, is receiving water fluoridation.” … The level of the population receiving fluorides ranges from 75.9% in Ontario to 0% in Nunavut and Yukon. … and Québec […]
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