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Atlanta Civil Rights Leaders Call for Halt to Water Fluoridation
Citing concern that fluoridated water disproportionately harms poor citizens and black families, influential Atlanta civil rights leaders Andrew Young and Gerald Durley are calling on top Georgia legislators to repeal Georgia’s mandatory water fluoridation law. Young and Durley recently sent letters to legislators Chip Rogers, Robert Brown, Larry O’Neal, and Stacey Abrams, the majority and […]
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Green Insider: Fluorinating Atlanta’s Tap Water
A hot topic, yet something rarely discussed, is the fluoride found in our Atlanta water supply. When first introduced into our water stream in 1969, as required by Georgia law, people hailed fluoride as a positive addition to improve dental hygiene. However, today, many national organizations, like the Fluoride Action Network (www.fluoridealert.org) are working to […]
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Fluoride: Friend or Foe?
Excerpt: … The American Dental Association and the Centers for Disease Control have endorsed water fluoridation since 1950 and while they admit that fluoride can be toxic in excessive quantities, the ADA maintains that at optimal levels, water fluoridation is a safe and effective way to prevent dental decay. But, when we tried to ask […]
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Big Canoe Utilities drops water fluoridation
The new water treatment plant for Big Canoe will not be equipped with a water fluoridation dispensing mechanism, according to Arnold Ellison, vice president of the Big Canoe Water Company. The company stopped adding fluoride to Big Canoe’s water in 2007, Ellison said, in part because of a simmering debate about the safety of fluoridating […]
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Firing of water utility whistleblower spotlights CDC reluctance to address new safety concerns about water fluoridation
December 17, 2008 – Ellijay, GA: With more than 50 communities across the U.S. voting to reject water fluoridation on Election Day last month, the recent firing of Dalton, Georgia water employee Wally Babb for voicing concerns about fluoridated water is focusing a spotlight on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control near Dalton. In 2007 […]
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Dalton: EPA union supports fired fluoride opponent
A national labor union representing federal employees in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has written Dalton Utilities a letter in support of Wally Babb, who utility officials fired after a dispute over fluoridation of drinking water. “Shame on you,” states the letter, which calls Mr. Babb’s actions “a decision of conscience.” Written by National Treasury […]
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Dalton: Water worker fired for opposing fluoridation
DALTON, Ga. — A national debate about fluoride in water spilled into North Georgia last week when Dalton Utilities fired an employee over his concerns about the fluoridation of water here. Water plant worker Wally Babb, 45, was a purchaser for the utility when he first became uneasy several years ago about fluoride — a […]
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Lyerly Debating Taking Fluoride Out Of Water
The Mayor of Lyerly calls it rat poison, but you are drinking it. The container this stuff comes in has labels with skulls and crossbones with bold letters that say “Toxic.” But yet you are drinking it. The substance in question or debate is the fluoride injected into municipal water systems across the nation. “We […]
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