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Watertown City Council could be leaning to get rid of fluoride
Could the Watertown City Council end up voting to take fluoride out of the city’s water supply? Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham thinks so. If a vote was held now, Mr. Graham said, he believes there would be a “50-50” chance that the City Council would vote to get rid of the colorless, tasteless chemical that […]
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Portland. Sources Say: Vote didn’t end fluoride fight
The fight over fluoridating Portland’s water isn’t finished. Voters overwhelmingly defeated Ballot Measure 26-161 in Tuesday’s election, repealing the City Council’s plan to fluoridate the water. But opponents have already filed an initiative petition for a City Charter change to prevent the council from ever doing it in the future. They temporarily stopped gathering signatures […]
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Purdue Researcher’s New ‘Tool for the Organic Chemist Toolbox’ Licensed to Sigma-Aldrich
A Purdue University researcher’s U.S. patent for a safer, easier and “greener” method to incorporate fluorine into organic compounds – a common step in materials processing, drug discovery and synthesis of agricultural treatments – has been licensed to a subsidiary of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, a St. Louis-based life science and high technology company. David Colby, assistant […]
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PFOS: Checks for Victorian firies over toxic fish
THE Country Fire Authority (CFA) will conduct health checks on Victorian firefighters who ate fish caught in a contaminated lake at its training college at Fiskville. The CFA said the lake contained residues from firefighting foams previously used in training exercises. Testing of flesh from four fish showed it contained PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonate), a chemical […]
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Brooksville: Fluoridation talk of town
Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn said earlier this year, if the Hernando County Health Department was to present the benefits of fluoride in tap water, she’d like to hear the other side. During Tuesday evening’s water fluoridation workshop, Bradburn took matters into her own hands, and presented what she believed to be the dangers of fluoride […]
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EPA fines Louisiana phosphoric acid manufacter to reduce hydrogen fluoride emissions
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced that PCS Nitrogen has agreed to reduce air emissions from phosphoric acid production at its facility in Geismar, La. “Reducing pollution from mining and mineral processing operations is one of EPA’s national enforcement initiatives because these facilities release more […]
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Portland. State Rep. Ben Unger: stung by fluoridation loss
After Tuesday night’s resounding defeat of Portland’s fluoridation measure, Oregon State Rep. Ben Unger (D-Hillsboro) must still be licking his wounds. As a career political operative, Unger has grown quite used to being on the winning side of campaigns. His campaign website lists these achievements, starting with his election as student body vice-president at the […]
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Portland’s Vote Reflects Recent Scientific Findings on Fluoridation’s Risks
Portland, Oregon, the largest U.S. city without fluoridation chemicals added to its drinking water, rejected water fluoridation Tuesday in an election watched around the country. Despite being outspent by more than a 3 to 1 margin, fluoridation opponents defeated the measure with the current vote count at 60.5 to 39.4%. The latest polling showed especially […]
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Oak Ridge scientist Thiessen concerned with EPA fluoride maximum
An Oak Ridge-based scientist told a community group Tuesday that she believes the Environmental Protection Agency regulations concerning the maximum allowable concentration of fluoride in drinking water, far higher than found in local water supplies, do not include an adequate safety margin. Kathleen Thiessen, senior scientist with SENES, Oak Ridge Inc., Center for Risk Analysis, […]
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Portland fluoride: For the fourth time since 1956, Portland voters reject fluoridation
Fluoride supporters, it appeared, had everything going for them. Five Portland city commissioners had voted to add fluoride to the city water supply. Health advocacy groups, and many of the city’s communities of color, lined up behind the cause. And proponents outraised opponents 3-to-1. But none of that was enough. For the fourth time since […]
United States, Oregon