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Pequannock New Jersey votes against fluoridation
Voters narrowly defeated a non-binding ballot question that asked if they favored putting teeth-protecting fluoride into the municipal water system. The all-Republican Township Council now has the final say in the matter and will use the defeat, by a vote of 2,858 to 2,607, as a guide to public sentiment. Three years ago, a panel […]
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Ozark Voters Reject Fluoridation
If Ozark aldermen follow the results of Tuesday?s nonbinding vote on fluoridation, the chemical won?t be added to the city?s water supply. With 5 of 5 precincts involved in the election reporting, the final unofficial vote was: Yes 1,925 No 2,818 As the deciding votes from the West Finley precinct were tallied just after midnight, […]
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San Antonio voters narrowly approve fluoridation
San Antonio and surrounding communities soon will have fluoride added to their water, according to nearly complete local voting returns that, in the end, generated few upsets or surprises. With early votes and 573 of 625 ballot boxes counted, accounting for 92 percent of the local votes cast, Bexar County Sheriff Ralph Lopez, a Democrat, […]
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Fluoride will flow in Salt Lake, Davis water
Fluoridated water will be flowing from the taps in Salt Lake and Davis counties in about a year. But Logan voters were leaning against fluoridation in early results. Water fluoridation, touted as a safe and effective way to reduce tooth decay, was winning in Salt Lake County, with 52 percent of the precincts’ votes counted. […]
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Fluoridation Loses Twice in Washington
Voters in Spokane and East Wenatchee voted against adding fluoride to their drinking water. The fluoridation proposal was rejected in Spokane by 51 percent of the voters and by 53 percent of the voters in East Wenatchee. Spokane also rejected water fluoridation in 1969 and 1984. About 68 percent of Americans drink fluoridated water. Supporters […]
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East Wenatchee Voters Flush Fluoride
EAST WENATCHEE — Voters in the East Wenatchee Water District have rejected efforts to put fluoride in the regional water system. “It was the voters’ choice,” said Dr. Robert Merrill, spokesman for Wenatchee Valley Citizens for Healthy Teeth. “Unless there’s a significant change in what people want, it’s dead for now.” Commissioners in the water […]
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Brattleboro voters reject fluoridation of drinking water
Voters have decided not to add fluoride to the town’s drinking water. The measure was defeated Tuesday by a vote of 2,859-2,276. Select Board member Newell “Russ” West said the board would abide by the vote. “We were smart enough to say it was going right to the people, who were more vehement about this […]
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What’s Ahead for the Nation’s Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride?
In storage yards at the nation’s present and former uranium enrichment plants are some 700,000 metric tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride, a toxic product of the uranium enrichment process. The US Department of Energy (DOE) in April published a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Alternative Strategies for the Long-Term Management and Use of Depleted […]
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‘Civil Action’ lawyer takes on pollution, corruption at Ormet Aluminum
COLUMBUS – In a meeting room at a downtown hotel here, Jan Schlictmann waits for his 10 a.m. appointment. He doesn’t look a bit like John Travolta, who portrayed him in the film A Civil Action. It was based on Jonathan Harr’s 1995 book about Mr. Schlichtmann’s battle against corporate polluters. It was Mr. Schlichtmann […]
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Ralph Nader speaks out against fluoridation in San Antonio
I am not normally a fence-sitter, but until last week I was straddling the barbed wire on the fluoridation issue, and it was getting mighty uncomfortable. With an 18-month-old daughter at home, my wife and I have debated the volatile issue many times. Most discussions ended with the two of us more confused than ever […]
United States, Texas