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Stoned Salmon, Pissed Environmentalists
Paul Engelking sadly explains why he dropped one of his favorite pastimes. “The fish have enough problems,” he says, “without me trying to put them on a hook.” Engelking, a chemistry professor at the University of Oregon, can walk you down the familiar list: destruction of habitat by loggers, toxic runoff from cities, fertilizers and […]
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Fluoride debate generates controversy in Bennington
BENNINGTON – A controversial proposal to add fluoride to the town’s water system is likely to be put to the voters sometime next year, according to a Select Board member. The proposal, which brought supporters and critics out in force to a public hearing Tuesday, is so emotionally freighted that voters deserve a say, Salvatore […]
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Chemist blasts fluoride
BENNINGTON – Five years ago, if you asked Dr. Paul Connett about the fluoridation of community water supplies, Connett would’ve told you that he didn’t want or need another issue with which to contend. But now is another story, where Connett vehemently opposes fluoridation because of its negative effects on the human pineal gland, on […]
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Public officials should honor fluoridation vote
There are a lot of fine people living in Clearfield, and among them are some pretty sharp members of the city council. We’ve dealt with them over the years and found them to be pretty straight shooters. We’ve also dealt with the leaders of the Davis County Board of Health and found them to be […]
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Lead poisoning is no child’s play
Lead poisoning continues to pose the most serious environmental health hazard to children in the United States, scientists say. The warning comes a month before the release of a study to be published in the journal Public Health Reports, which found that health problems associated with lead can occur at much lower levels of exposure […]
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Galloway New Jersey to Return to Fluoride Free Water
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — Atlantic City’s award-winning water isn’t clean enough for Galloway Township resident Robert R. Reyers. It’s not the water itself Reyers doesn’t like. After all, the city’s tap water earned honors last month in the Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting Awards, held in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., and has won three gold medals in […]
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Hudson County: Next in Line for Fluoridation?
…clothes or food, much less toothpaste,” said Dr. Kavita Ghai, a Union City dentist and one of many medical professionals in the state clamoring to add fluoride to the water supply. “Fluoridated water is needed here. . . . if we had fluoride in the water, it would save not only children, but adults and […]
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Good News from Japan
Dear All, This news just in from FAN member Tohru Murakami. Well done Tohru! Paul Connett. ———————————————————————— On 19th March, 2001 Town Assembly of Kanra-machi, Gunma Prefecture in Japan rejected the proposal of Fluoridation of their tap water. This is the first case of rejection of fluoridation since Ministry of Labor and Welfare decided the […]
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Fluoride Accumulations Killing Fish, Pine Trees, and Poisoning Environment
Although the first public drinking water supply in this country was fluoridated 56 years ago, the impact of fluoride on the environment has only recently begun to be studied. Unlike health impacts, which have been the subject of hundreds of research articles by university scientists published in academic journals worldwide, the buildup of fluoride in […]
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Fluoridated Water Called an Environmental Poison
HANOVER, New Hampshire, March 20, 2001 (ENS) – A research team led by Dartmouth College professor Roger Masters charges that fluoridated drinking water is linked to higher blood levels of lead in children. Sodium fluoride, first added to public drinking water in 1945, is now used in less than 10 percent of fluoridation systems nationwide, […]
United States, National USA