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Big Bear: Board approves water master plan
They have the plan in hand and 20 years to make it work. The Big Bear City Community Services District board of directors accepted a new water master plan at the Feb. 1 meeting. The water master plan replaces the old plan, which was written in 1991. The new 450-page document estimates water recharge, water […]
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Sarnia: Fluoride vote illustrates how divided council is on the issue
A tied vote at Sarnia City Council Monday night on the issue of fluoride in the local drinking water supply illustrates just how divided our politicians are on the issue. In a recorded vote at Monday’s council meeting, councillors Andy Bruziewicz, Bev MacDougall, Jon McEachran and Anne Marie Gillis voted in favour of removing fluoride […]
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Fluoride sharing the same legacy as asbestos
In the early 1900s, uranium-containing products were a common sight in local pharmacies. As unthinkable as it seems now, there was actually a time when this precarious material was used for its supposed healing properties. Customers, unaware of the dangers of radiation, would rub their aching joints with “healing pads” filled with low-grade uranium. Pills […]
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Maine: High levels of contaminant found in osprey eggs
Osprey eggs in Casco Bay contain stain repellent and other industrial chemicals at levels that may be harming the birds, according to a Gorham-based researcher. The study adds to the growing evidence of industrial chemicals accumulating in the environment, potentially threatening human health and wildlife, said Wing Goodale, a scientist at the BioDiversity Research Institute […]
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Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Begins
NOTE from Fluoride Action Network: The US EPA’s final rule for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gases was published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2009 ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** […]
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City of Amery resumes fluoridation
Old Business (Page 2) Update on City of Amery Discontinuation of Fluoridation Sampson talked about the Amery council meeting that she attended along with Bonnie Leonard, Public Health Supervisor and Brian Hobbs, Environmental Specialist. There were many speakers, including local dentists and other citizens expressing concern about the discontinuance of fluoridating the city water supply. […]
United States, Wisconsin -
Fairbanks: Council adopts Cleworth plan for fluoride committee
Six prominent local scientists have agreed to serve on a new city committee to prepare a report on the use of fluoride in the water systems in Fairbanks. Retired UAF Chemistry Professor Paul Reichardt is to lead the committee, while others named to the panel are UAF Chemistry Professor Emeritus Dick Stolzberg, UAF Economic Geology […]
United States, Alaska -
Sarnia won’t ban fluoride
Sarnia city council has said yes to keeping fluoride in local drinking water by the slimmest of margins. A motion at Monday’s council meeting recommending removal of the additive. But when debate closed the measure ended up tied four votes to four. In case of a tie vote the motion fails and by default council […]
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Seneca County: Health board looks at adding fluoride to water
WATERLOO — The Seneca County Board of Health is exploring the cost of fluoridating the county’s municipal water supplies. “It’s very preliminary at this point,” said Vickie Swinehart, county public health director. “We’ve asked the county’s grant writer, Peter Brown, to see if there are grants out there for equipment and other startup costs and […]
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3M talks had short guest list
The rendezvous spot was the Starbucks at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport baggage claim area. 3M representatives greeted university and federal scientists there as their planes arrived and whisked them to the Wildwood Lodge in Lake Elmo. There, for two days in September, the scientists met and dined with 3M experts to discuss the latest research […]
Perfluorinated chemicals