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Pensacola: Fluoride fight brews in ECUA races
The campaigns for two Emerald Coast Utilities Authority seats have an undercurrent: Whether fluoride should continue to be added to local drinking water. The issue could be effectively decided if the two pro-flouride incumbents — Lois Benson in District 2 and Dale Perkins in District 4 — lose to challengers who are either stridently against […]
United States, Florida -
Anglesea Alcoa toxin fears for new school
FLUORIDE emissions, that deformed the bones of kangaroos in Portland, will increase in Anglesea with a trial to start about 800m from the town’s new primary school. The Alcoa power station will process a waste product called HiCal 40 carbon fuel to determine whether it can be used as an alternative to brown coal. Alcoa […]
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Dutchess lawmakers consider eliminating health board’s power
POUGHKEEPSIE — Dutchess County legislators have begun debating a local law that would strip the county Board of Health of its authority to set public health laws. Members of the Legislature’s Government Services and Administration Committee on Thursday took up legislation proposed by Legislator Michael Kelsey that would take away the board’s authority to “formulate, […]
United States, New York -
Southampton: U-turn on fluoride angers Romsey Conservative MP Caroline Nokes
A TORY MP has launched an outspoken attack on her own Government over its apparent climbdown on fluoridation in Hampshire. Caroline Nokes, new MP for Romsey and Southampton North, pictured right, has written a strongly worded letter to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley, in which she says she feels “very let down” by his failure to […]
United Kingdom, England -
The Ash Comes Down Like a Blessing to Some
REYKJAVIC, Jul 8, 2010 (IPS) – “It’s unbelievable, the eruption has had a very good effect on the grass,” says farmer Finnur Tryggvason in Raudafell, just beneath the Eyjafjallajokull glacier that erupted in April and continued till late May. The ash is thought to keep the soil warm, hence enhancing growth. “It’s like putting fertilizer […]
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No One is Surprised That Fluoride is a Toxic Waste
Everyone knows that fluoride is added to our drinking water. They also add fluoride to our hatcheries, streams, lakes, oceans, and rivers. It should be viewed as toxic poison. That’s what it is called when it’s a runoff from the aluminum industry or from a phosphate/fertilizer industry. However, when you drink it in city tap […]
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Mt. Pleasant: Fluoride lowered in Mt. Pleasant; Kilmer remains opposed
The vice mayor of the city of Mt. Pleasant does not feel it was right for the city commission to overturn a vote by the people. Last week, the city water department reduced the amount of fluoride in the water from 0.7 parts per million to an average .5 ppm following a resolution passed by […]
United States, Michigan -
Holliday: Fluoridation battle rages on
Holliday Water won’t have to fluoridate its supply — at least for now. Under a recent decision by the Utah Supreme Court, the water company will not have to fluoridate its supply, despite a 2000 Salt Lake County ordinance that requires fluoridation. The company argued that as a private corporation, it was exempt. Holliday shareholders […]
United States, Utah -
Southampton: Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, told to scrap fluoride laws
HAMPSHIRE campaigners are calling on the Deputy Prime Minister to scrap the law governing the way fluoride can be added to water supplies. Nick Clegg has asked people to tell him what legislation they want to see removed as part of a bid by the new coalition Government to amend unpopular laws. And Hampshire Against […]
United Kingdom, England -
Mt. Pleasant: Many surrounding communities support water fluoridation
Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final part in a series examining water fluoridation in Mount Pleasant. While the battle of water fluoridation rages on in the city of Mount Pleasant, surrounding cities fluoridate municipal water supplies with little debate. Water fluoridation, the practice of adding fluoride to municipal water supplies to help fight […]
United States, Michigan