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Healdsburg fluoride opponents to try again for ballot measure
Undaunted by a resounding defeat at the ballot box in 2014, opponents of fluoridation are mounting another try to convince Healdsburg voters to stop adding the substance to the city’s water supply. Fluoride opponents are gathering voter signatures to place the issue on the November ballot, hoping the outcome will be different from last time, […]
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Marin Municipal Water District: Petition to label water additives
A nonprofit group is gathering signatures for a ballot measure to suspend the Marin Municipal Water District’s program of dosing drinking water with chemical additives that increase fluoride until the district identifies those additives and their health risks. The measure also would require the district to submit a written statement either on the district’s website […]
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EPA investigating ExxonMobil for understating Torrance refinery risk
The EPA has opened an investigation into whether ExxonMobil understated the possible effects of a worst-case industrial disaster at its Torrance refinery, becoming the latest government agency to probe the company’s regulatory compliance in the wake of last February’s explosion. Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Nahal Mogharabi confirmed that the agency is looking at ExxonMobil’s compliance […]
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Marin Voice: MMWD should look at the costs of fluoridation
It doesn’t matter whether you are for water fluoridation or not. If the fluoridating chemical used by Marin Municipal Water District does not have safety studies for ingestion the practice should end immediately. Since the 1972 and 1978 votes of the public to fluoridate, a great deal of scientific proof of potential harm and lack […]
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Clean Water Sonoma-Marin Movie Night 9/24: Our Daily Dose & Q&A
Thursday September 24, 2015 MOVIE: Our Daily Dose (2015) A 17 minute documentary about water fluoridation by award-winning film maker Jeremy Siefert PLACE: SUNRISE CENTER, 645 Tamalpais Drive, Corte Madera DATE: Thursday September 24, 2015 TIME: 7:00-9:00 pm DIRECTIONS: From Hwy 101, take the Tamilpais exit, and go west on Tamilpais Drive. See the map […]
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Leak of potentially dangerous gas sparks state safety probe at Torrance ExxonMobil refinery
State safety regulators are investigating a leak of potentially deadly modified hydrofluoric acid this week at the Torrance ExxonMobil refinery, the latest dangerous accident at the aging plant to raise questions over its ability to operate safely in a densely populated area. Sunday’s “significant incident,” as the Torrance Fire Department called it, comes in the […]
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State fines ExxonMobil $566,600 for serious safety violations in wake of Torrance refinery explosion
State regulators on Thursday fined ExxonMobil $566,600 for 19 workplace heath and safety violations, with all but one classified as serious because they could lead to worker death, in the wake of the Feb. 18 explosion at the Torrance refinery that literally rocked the city. In addition, a half-dozen of the serious violations also were […]
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PR firm Miller Geer & Assoc. Case Study: California Fluoridation Task Force
Situation During the mid-1990s, with California’s dental decay rates for children and adults resisting decline compared to the majority of other states in the country, state public health officials sought solutions to reverse those statistics, forming the California Fluoridation Task Force (CFTF). The Task Force is comprised of the California Dental Association, The California Department […]
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Sonoma County: Supervisors Drop Fluoride from Their Agenda
After spending seven years in meetings and more than million taxpayer dollars on studies and fluoridation promotion, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors (BOS) dropped water fluoridation from their agenda without a word to the press or the public. Shortly before the May 19 meeting that was planned to present the recommendations of the Fluoridation […]
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Marin County, July 27 presentation on fluoridation
We applaud the Marin Municipal Water District board for halting its consideration of using glyphosate. It is an excellent application of the Precautionary Principle — ”Better safe than sorry.” We also thank the MMWD for its prompt response to the Department of Health and Human Services’ admission that we have been over-fluoridating for decades. On […]
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