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Prescott Mulling Vote on Fluoride
Fort Town residents will likely be asked come election time whether they continue to want fluoride added to their drinking water. Council took the first step Monday night toward a referendum on the issue when it agreed to hold a public meeting presenting both the pros and cons of water fluoridation. The date hasn’t been […]
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Indian villagers crippled by fluoride
This is a story of a land where excess fluoride has turned the ground water into a slow poison, crippling at least 10,000 people and leaving hundreds of thousand of others in constant misery. This is the story of Nalgonda, one of the poorest and most drought-prone districts of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The […]
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Dupont Chemical Showing Up in Blood of Children, Adults
Blood in children and adults across the country contains a byproduct of chemicals used to keep dozens of household products and clothing clean and dry. Results of the blood tests are buried in an archive of industry studies at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is increasingly concerned about a family of chemicals used to […]
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Dover fluoridates its water
Smile, Dover. You’re finally quaffing fluoridated drinking water. On Monday, you joined residents of Wilmington, Newark, Milford, Lewes and Selbyville who have been guzzling the formula of one part fluoride solution per million gallons of water for about two decades now. There are now nine fluoridation facilities around Dover, said Scott Keonig, Dover’s director of […]
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Piney Point: 500-million gallons of acidic waste heading to gulf
TAMPA — In an unprecedented move, federal regulators announced Thursday they will allow Florida to dispose 500-million gallons of acidic wastewater into the Gulf of Mexico. The waste from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate mine in Manatee County could be loaded onto barges and sprayed into the gulf starting in two weeks, said Allan Bedwell, […]
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EPA Report Raises Concerns About PFOA
A draft EPA report has raised concerns about developmental and other health effects associated with perfluoro-chemicals, which are widely used in DuPont’s Teflon products, as well as electronics and aerospace applications. EPA’s Office of. Pollution Prevention and Toxics has been studying perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and its salts following the discovery of unexpected bioaccumulative properties of […]
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Turner plans Charter vote to stop fluoridation in San Antonio
Still stung by the passage of a fluoride referendum more than two years ago, grass-roots activist Kay Turner is gearing up to stop the addition of the cavity-fighting chemical to the local water supply. Turner, a high-profile personality in battles against the Applewhite reservoir and previous fluoridation attempts, said she is drafting a proposed amendment […]
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Prescott to discuss referendum on fluoridation
The fluoridation of Prescott’s drinking water could become an issue for a referendum due to a faulty regulator. Whether the town should continue to put fluoride in its water as it has for four decades became a topic when the cost of replacing a fluoride regulator was announced at a Monday night budget session. “I […]
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India’s groundwater is flooded with fluoride
Fluoride is an acute toxin, with a rating slightly higher than lead. It is, in fact, one of the most bone-seeking elements known to human beings. And groundwater in India shows the presence of unhealthy quantities of fluoride. A worrying scenario: daily ingestion of just 2 milligram (mg) of fluoride could result in crippling skeletal […]
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New Zealand: Environmental hazards of fluoride in volcanic ash: a case study from Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand
Abstract: The vent-hosted hydrothermal system of Ruapehu volcano is normally covered by a c. 10 million m3 acidic crater lake where volcanic gases accumulate. Through analysis of eruption observations, granulometry, mineralogy and chemistry of volcanic ash from the 1995-1996 Ruapehu eruptions we report on the varying influences on environmental hazards associated with the deposits. All […]
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