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New Review Finds NYC Watershed Protection Program Successful in Maintaining and Enhancing Water Quality
Note from Fluoride Action Network Approximately 1 billion gallons of drinking water each day are used by residents in New York City and those living in Westchester, Putnam, Orange and Ulster counties. The source of relatively clean water comes from quite a distance and is then fluoridated with toxic waste from the fertilizer industry. There […]
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Olean Common Council adds wellhouse project to list
Olean water wellhouse 37/78 on East Riverside Drive will see almost $400,000 in work as the Olean Common Council approved a contract for the work on Tuesday. OLEAN — City officials added another project to the list to get done this summer, despite COVID-19. The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $382,850 contract […]
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Destroying Forever Chemicals Ignites N.Y. Town’s ‘Worst Fears’
Firefighters spray foam on burning embers beside homes on Latigo Canyon Road in Malibu, Calif., in 2018. PFAS-laced firefighting foam from multiple states had been sent for destruction to an incinerator in upstate New York, raising concerns about local health and environmental effects. Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via via Getty Images Incineration ‘unproven’ method of […]
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Toxic PFAS Fallout Found Near Incinerator in Upstate New York
PFAS contamination was found in soil and water near an incinerator in New York state that has been burning firefighting foam for the Department of Defense. Industrial chemicals known as PFAS have contaminated soil and water near an incinerator in upstate New York that has been burning firefighting foam. The facility is run by Norlite, […]
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Fluoridation Expose’ Garners Prestigious Award
PRNewswire/ — In the 1940’s, America was sold fluoridation with the false equivalency that pollutants (hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride), when added to public water supplies, acts similarly as naturally fluoridated water to safely reduce tooth decay – but without such evidence, reports Frank Zelko, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental History, University of Hawaii, in History […]
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NY receiving comments on weak regulations for PFOA-PFOS up to March 9.
Act Now to Protect NY’s Tap Water From Dangerous Chemicals New York State seems reluctant to ban chemicals linked to serious health problems, including cancer. The Department of Health is ready pass regulations that allow chemical concentration levels in drinking water five times higher than scientists deem safe. Even after these regulations—which would still be […]
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Prominent Harvard Researcher Certain Fluoride is Unsafe for Children’s Developing Brains, NYSCOF
NEW YORK, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — “There is little doubt that developmental neurotoxicity is a serious risk associated with elevated fluoride exposure, whether due to community water fluoridation, natural fluoride release from soil minerals, or tea consumption, especially when the exposure occurs during early [brain] development,” writes Harvard Professor and researcher Phillipe Grandjean, MD, in a […]
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Cortland County health director to retire
S.N. Briere/staff reporter Cortland County Public Health Director Catherine Feuerherm, right, works with her secretary Cheryl Mrozowski on a presentation Feuerherm will give to the Legislature Health and Human services Committee in March. Feuerherm, who has been the director for 11 years, will retire in March. Two months after Catherine Feuerherm took over as Cortland […]
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Potsdam fluoride system bid goes over maximum, project on hold for now
POTSDAM — The installation of a new fluoride system for municipal water to replace the old failing system is on hold for the time being because the only bid received for the project was higher than the village had prepared for. Options now are “working with the bidder to discuss the price” with the hope […]
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Activists file lawsuit over Cohoes Norlite plant burning, storing PFOA for Defense Department
COHOES — Environmental groups are suing to stop the burning of the highly toxic chemical compounds PFOA and PFOS at the Norlite incineration plant in Cohoes. The chemicals have been burned at the plant under a 2019 U.S. Department of Defense contract to incinerate firefighting foam containing PFOA and PFOS that have been stored at […]
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