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Kaiser agrees to clean some polluted land
SPOKANE, Wash. — In a settlement with state regulators, Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Co. has agreed to spend $20 million to clean contaminated property at its defunct Mead smelter near Spokane. The proposed legal settlement, announced Wednesday, still must go through a formal public review and be approved by a U.S. bankruptcy court judge. The […]
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Puyallup council’s next to tackle fluoride issue
Sumner’s decision last week to stop fluoridating its water ended a debate that grew intense and at times took on an us-against-the-outsiders tenor. But the question of fluoridation remains unsettled in several other pockets of Pierce County. Two other utilities that started adding the cavity-fighting compound to their water under orders of the local health […]
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Mayor says ‘don’t filter fluoride cost data’
The City of Hood River hasn’t yet decided how costs will be divvied up if voters approve fluoridation of the water supply. But Mayor Paul Cummings has objected to placing the issue on the Nov. 2 general election ballot without listing the potential monthly charges. City staffers have tabulated that 2,000 customers could see an […]
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Mohawk official moves group with fluoride gas horror tale
HOGANSBURG – On Monday morning, F. Henry Lickers amazed and even brought to tears his audience of scientists and activists in a longhouse of the Mohawk people. For three hours, the director of the Department of Environment for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne described a dark chapter in his people’s history that began in the […]
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Sumner to stop putting fluoride in water
Sumner’s water fluoridation program will soon come to a halt. The City Council voted 7-1 Monday to stop putting fluoride in its drinking water, terminating the city’s contract with the Tacoma-Pierce County health board. The decision means the city will lose the $122,000 it has spent to install the system, including $58,000 that would have […]
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Experts at meeting say fluoride is detrimental to health
CANTON – In the only town in the north country to ban fluoride from its drinking water, a handful of scientists gathered and claimed the cavity-fighting substance negatively affects behavior and lowers intelligence. On Saturday at the St. Lawrence University campus, the second day of the First Citizens Conference on Fluoride, Phyllis J. Mullenix, who […]
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Port Angeles fluoride hearing heats up
PORT ANGELES — The second day of city water fluoridation hearings brought heated exchanges as debate continued toward 11 p.m. Thursday. Breaking from planned 10 p.m. adjournment, both sides completed their three-hour presentations about 9:40 p.m. Following a 30-minute break to prepare documents, City Council questions and closing arguments were expected to run until at […]
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Oregonians long skeptical of fluoridation
Today, less than a quarter of Oregon residents drink fluoridated water. Only two other states have lower percentages of use. Despite the fervent efforts of dentists to persuade water districts and city councils to add the substance, the chemical additive is in decline. Portland is the largest city in the United States without fluoridated water. […]
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To Add Or Not To Add
FLORENCE – For more than 50 years, the residents of this coastal town have gulped down millions of gallons of water, pumped from the surface of local lakes or from beneath sand dunes – with at least one special ingredient: fluoride. Hailed by dentists as a proven cavity foe, city officials decided in 1952 that […]
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Arcatans call for Safe Drinking Water ordinance
ARCATA — About 30 Arcata residents gathered on the lawn of City Hall on Thursday in support of the proposed Safe Drinking Water ordinance, which apparently targets the city’s continued use of fluoride. Citizens filed a notice of intent to circulate a petition to place the ordinance on a citywide ballot. The citizens plan to […]
United States, California