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Hawaii Fluoridation Bill SB2997: Hearing this Wednesday, February 12th at 9 am
THE SENATE THE THIRTIETH LEGISLATURE REGULAR SESSION OF 2020 COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY Kenekoa/Senator Karl Rhoads, Luna Ho‘omalu/Chair Kenekoa/Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Hope Luna Ho‘omalu/Vice Chair NOTICE OF HEARING DATE: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 TIME: 9:00 a.m. PLACE: Conference Room 016 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street A G E N D A SB 2997 Status […]
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Investigation: Government failure at all levels in Sandy fluoride event
SANDY — An independent investigation by an engineering firm looking at last year’s fluoride overfeed in Sandy that sickened hundreds of residents reveals missteps at all levels by government agencies handling the emergency. Those agencies include the city of Sandy, the Salt Lake County Health Department and the state division with responsibility over regulating drinking […]
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NYT: Worried About That New Medical Study? Read This First.
Note from the Fluoride Action Network, At last the New York Times has ran something on a fluoride study, however fleeting. In the article below the author writes, “One study is just one study” as if the JAMA Pediatrics study she cites by Green et al., published in August 2019, titled Association Between Maternal Fluoride […]
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Fluoride levels return to normal in Dubuque water, safe for all ages
Note from Fluoride Action Network, Health departments across the country are operating on outdated information about the “safe” level of fluoride exposure. This article suggests that 2 ppm is “safe” whereas it is nearly three times the allowable level in fluoridation schemes and three times higher than what caused harm in the most recent Mother-Offspring […]
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Arcata’s fluoride talk draws contentious discussion, falls flat
Without a second, item won’t go to ballot The Arcata City Council took up the issue of water fluoridation on Wednesday evening, considering whether to add a ballot measure in November 2020 asking voters’ opinion on the issue. The council, after hearing comments from a wide swath of Humboldt County residents, never actually voted because […]
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PFOA-PFOS: What the brain really thinks about forever chemicals
Forever chemicals are considered a public health issue as adverse health effects have been shown to affect hormones and other aspects of the endocrine system, and some are potentially neurotoxic. But to what extent is unknown, especially for the years and decades they may accumulate in the brain. (Illustration by Stuart Briers) Parkinson’s lab tracing […]
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Arcata considers putting fluoridation on November ballot
Arcata is returning to a question it asked 14 years ago: Should the city fluoridate its water? The Arcata City Council will be voting Wednesday on whether there should be a measure on the November 2020 ballot asking residents whether or not the city should stop fluoridating its water. The item was brought forward at […]
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EXCLUSIVE: Cause of Sandy’s water contamination not what city leaders originally thought
SANDY (KUTV) — The reason potentially dangerous levels of fluoride were pumped into Sandy City drinking water is not what city leaders initially said. Jim Spiewak reports: Cause of Sandy’s water contamination not what city leaders originally said. (Video: KUTV) Next week will mark one year since hundreds of homes, in several zones, were thought […]
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Arcata City Council considering ballot measure to end community water fluoridation
ARCATA – Among the items on the Wednesday, Feb. 5 City Council agenda is community water fluoridation. Arcata has fluoridated its water since the early 1960s, and in 2006 defeated by 62 to 38 percent Measure W, which would have ceased fluoridation. Councilmember Paul Pitino According to a city staff report, Councilmember Paul Pitino has […]
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NNSA Plans to Take Some Portsmouth DUF6 for Weapons Programs
The National Nuclear Security Administration has decided to use a cleanup facility in Ohio to help produce high-purity depleted uranium metal for nuclear weapons programs. The semiautonomous Department of Energy weapons agency will do that by installing a fourth process line at the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion facility at the Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, […]
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