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Hamilton: Airport cleanup put on federal agenda
Ontario Environment Minister Jim Bradley has stepped into the fray over who should clean up Hamilton’s contaminated airport. A consultant has spent the year studying perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) pollution and cleanup options at the city-owned airport, where firefighting foam laced with the chemical was used in training 30 years ago. But city council and the […]
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Fluoridation ‘increases tooth decay’ in the Wairarapa
The New push for fluoride in water by the District Health Board (Wairarapa Times-Age 6 November) is as predictable as it is absurd, says Mary Byrne, National Co-ordinator of the health activist group Fluoride Action Network, and newly resident in South Wairarapa. This is a classic case of statements being disproved by the very statistics […]
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Portland effort to fluoridate water supply halted until public vote
Portland must delay its effort to fluoridate Bull Run water until getting city voters’ approval. The city elections office on Thursday verified that a referendum challenging the City Council’s September fluoridation decision has qualified for the ballot. That puts an automatic stay on any efforts to proceed. A vote will be scheduled in May 2014, […]
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Sweetwater fluoridation raises concerns about safety
CHULA VISTA — The Sweetwater Authority board of directors recently picked MWH America to design the agency’s first fluoridation systems, despite lingering concerns from board members worried about employees’ safety. Director Terry Thomas asked that the board direct agency staff to call MWH America’s attention to some of the problems that the city of San […]
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Onalaska alderman wants to reconsider fluoride in city’s water
Onalaska has been adding fluoride to its water for decades, but there could be a movement bubbling to stop the practice. A couple of city residents have questioned whether the city should continue adding fluoride to its water supply to prevent tooth decay, said Onalaska Alderman Jack Pogreba, chairman of the city’s Board of Public […]
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Laser fluorescence helps quantify fluorosis
Quantitative laser fluorescence (QLF) — which noninvasively measures the loss of fluorescence intensity in areas of enamel hypomineralization — could be a useful tool in epidemiological studies designed to quantify fluorosis and distinguish between fluoridated and nonfluoridated populations, according to a new study in BMC Oral Health (November 1, 2012). The last several decades have […]
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EU scales back planned F-gas bans, opts for phase-out
The EU has abandoned plans to ban global warming fluorinated gases from Europe’s commercial and industrial refrigerators, opting largely for a ‘phase-down’ approach intended to reduce the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions to a third of today’s levels by 2030. Isaac Valero, a spokesman for EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard, said that the package was “the […]
European Union Greenhouse/Ozone Gases -
Fluoride referendum qualifies for Portland’s May 2014 ballot
State, county and city officials announced Thursday that Clean Water Portland’s anti-fluoride referendum qualified for the May 2014 ballot with more than 33,000 valid signatures. The group needed about 19,000 signatures to halt Portland’s plans — approved Sept. 12 by the Portland City Council — to add fluoride to the region’s drinking water. But Clean Water […]
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Questions remain after huge hydrofluoric acid leak
More than six weeks after eight tonnes of hydrofluoric acid was accidentally released at a chemical plant in South Korea, many of the thousands of local residents who fled the area at the time have reportedly not yet returned to their homes despite assurances from authorities that the area is now safe. The highly toxic […]
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Crescent City: Measure A passes — no more water fluoridation
Excerpt: FLUORIDATION Measure A to remove fluoride from the city water system was approved. It had 524 votes in support and 402 in opposition.
United States, California