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Columbia Falls: EPA explains aluminum-plant study
The Flathead Basin Commission got an update Wednesday on an Environmental Protection Agency assessment of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. property. A regional director for the EPA recently announced that the agency would conduct an assessment of the property in response to a letter from Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester. The Democratic senators […]
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Hampton tables fluoridation issue indefinitely
The issue of whether to keep adding fluoride to Hampton’s water was tabled indefinitely during a City Council workshop Monday night. Mayor Shawn Dietz said after council members gathered input from citizens it was decided that the a majority of them want to keep adding fluoride to the city’s water. “The decision of the council […]
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Portland. Kaiser Permanente Chips in $25,000 for Fluoride Campaign
Kaiser Permanente has written a $25,000 check to Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the political action committee pushing for Measure 26-151, which would authorize fluoridation of Portland’s water supply, according to a filing with the state. That check continues a mini-trend: the pro-fluoride campaign has gotten institutional support, while the anti-fluoride campaign, Clean Water Portland, is […]
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Portland. The Battle For Bull Run: Fighting Against Fluoridation
With the amount of media blitzing that’s bombarded Portland’s airwaves, interwebs, and neighborhood front yards, you’d have thought the dual campaigns for and against fluoridating Bull Run fresh water had been going on for years. In fact, this fight started in earnest just last fall, when the consulting & lobbying group Upstream Public Health began […]
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Auckland protesters voice fluoride concerns
A group of protesters have gathered outside Auckland’s Town Hall to speak out against adding fluoride to the city’s water. Around 40 people picketed against fluoridation, claiming links to numerous mental health issues, cancers and bone diseases. They say the number of countries that add fluoride to water makes up only 5% of the world, […]
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Southampton: Public Health England to go ahead with fluoride plans in thousands of Hampshire homes
Fluoride will be added to tap water in thousands of Hampshire homes – unless the scheme’s opponents find a last-ditch solution. Despite the demise of the organisation which voted through the controversial scheme, its successor Public Health England says it will carry out fluoridation affecting about 200,000 people. Its opponents, including local councils, are currently […]
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Ireland: 4 in 5 have gum disease
Note from FAN: Ireland is the only country to have mandatory fluoridation Gum disease affects four out of five people in Ireland, but many may be unaware they have the condition because there are often no symptoms in the early stages, dental health professionals have warned. They have just launched a new medical information leaflet […]
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Mysore: Kids suffer from dental, skeletal fluorosis
Alarming: Water with excess flouride content in Mysore Mysore district is among the districts in the State facing severe water scarcity due to failed monsoons and a survey on the prevalence of fluorosis among children in schools shows that children are suffering the results of water shortage and contamination. According to National Programme for Prevention […]
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Fraser Mayor ready to put the f-word to rest and stop fluoridation
FRASER Coast Mayor Gerard O’Connell is finally ready to put the f-word to rest, with fluoridation of the water to stop on May 30. The unused supply of fluoride the region has will be sent south of the border to the Tweed Shire Council. “It has taken a while to work through the mechanics to […]
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Our Water Quality: About Nambe’s high uranium levels
The Nambé area is well known for high uranium concentrations in private water wells, one of which was laboratory-tested to be about 60 times the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s maximum contamination level (MCL) of 30 parts per billion (ppb). If you read my previous column, I cited recent work that the uranium found in wells […]
United States, New Mexico