CUMBERLAND — Cumberland voters overwhelmingly approved yesterday a bid to lift the city’s decade-old ban on fluoridating its water supply, signaling a major shift in Western Maryland’s traditional hostility to the widely accepted cavity-fighting chemical. By a vote of 2,525 to 1,633 in unofficial returns, residents opted to repeal a charter provision barring the addition […]
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3M To Stop Making Many Scotchgard Products
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (3M) said on Tuesday it would stop making many of its well-known Scotchgard products after tests revealed the chemical compounds involved linger in the environment and in the human body for years. Medical monitoring of employees at plants that make the chemicals have shown the compounds are […]
3M to Phase Out Perfluorooctanyl sulfonate (PFOS)
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Following negotiations between EPA and 3M, the company today announced that it will voluntarily phase out and find substitutes for perfluorooctanyl sulfonate (PFOS) chemistry used to produce a range of products, including some of their Scotchgard lines. 3M data supplied to EPA indicated that these chemicals are very persistent in the environment, have a strong […]
National Water Week Marked by Congressional Probe on Fluoridation
In the week set aside by President Bush in 1990 for observance May 7 – 13, 2000 as National Drinking Water Week, the House of Representatives Committee on Science expanded their field of inquiry on fluoridation of public water systems to include other agencies that play a part in the decisions and actions surrounding the […]
Ohio Leads in Pollution by Utilities
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Ohio’s electric utilities emit more toxic pollution than any others in the nation, according to figures released yesterday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The news immediately sparked debate over how harmful the emissions are. But the EPA sidestepped the issue, saying it was merely providing information so local communities and the state could decide what […]
Wound Up About Fluoride
A little bit of poison can be good for you. It’s a pretty fundamental tenet of medicine and of life. Just the right amount of aspirin, even wine or beer, can extend your life; too much and you’re on your way to detox. The old axiom of excess and moderation is also the basis of […]
Recycling company added to EPA “significant violators list”
LYON TOWNSHIP, Mich – An Oakland County recycling company under scrutiny for allegedly releasing toxic smoke has been placed on a federal pollution list. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named Continental Aluminum Inc. to its “significant violators list,” which can lead to daily fines of up to $27,500 and criminal charges for deliberate pollution, The […]
West Maryland Cities Revisit Fluoride Issue
CUMBERLAND – Crime, taxes and schools are the usual campaign fodder in municipal elections, but in two Western Maryland cities the burning topic this spring is one long ago settled in most communities without debate: fluoride. Barring a last-minute court ruling, Cumberland voters are to decide May 16 whether to repeal a decade-old ban on […]
Gerber Introduces Non-Fluoride Toothpaste for Babies
Opponents of water fluoridation have brandished a new weapon: a fluoride-free baby tooth cleaner that the Gerber Products Co. markets as safe and gentle. Nashua resident Paul Harrington, president of New Hampshire Citizens for Health and Freedom, said Gerber was obviously concerned about a baby’s overexposure to fluoride. But a Manchester city health official said […]
TD calls for an end of water fluoridation
Independent TD Tom Gildea, is to press the Government to abandon the fluoridation of the country’s water supply. Gildea told The Sunday Tribune last week that he would be putting pressure on the government at behind-the-scenes meetings to scrap the fluoridation programme, which has been in place since the early 1960s. The compulsory inclusion of […]