Warnings needed to inform pregnant women living in fluoridated areas that the fetus and formula-fed infant are the most vulnerable to fluoride’s neurotoxicity. Public health officials should warn pregnant women and parents who bottle-feed infants living in fluoridated communities to avoid fluoridated water. No health agency has yet to do this.” — Paul Connett PhD, […]
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Piney Point: ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making
A leak at an abandoned fertilizer plant is just the latest development at a site that has polluted the area since it was built 01:10 Drone footage of Florida reservoir shows toxic water leak near Tampa Bay – video It’s been a week since a significant leak at a long-abandoned fertilizer plant in the Tampa […]
Spokane mayor, council president may strike deal on fluoride study
Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward and the Spokane City Council have struck a new deal over studying a fluoride system for city water. (Christopher Anderson) Spokane leaders have renegotiated the terms of the grant used to fund the analysis in order to assuage the concerns of Spokane Mayor Nadine Woodward. The Spokane City Council accepted a […]
Crowther: CDC focus
Many of us are celebrating the fact “science-based” is no longer a banned phrase in our new national administration. Not surprisingly, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky, has an impressive background in her science-based profession. She served previously as the chief of the Division of Infectious […]
Flumethrin + Imidacloprid: Legal Petition Calls On EPA to Cancel Seresto Flea Collar Linked to Deaths of Nearly 1,700 Pets
Note from Fluoride Action Network: Some old info from our site Structural formula: Agency Failed to Take Action Despite More Than 75,000 Reports of Harm WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal legal petition today urging the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel the registration of the Seresto flea and tick collar linked to […]
Nancy Quirk appointed to federal water council following AWWA nomination
A federal committee that advises the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on issues related to the national drinking water program recently appointed a new member nominated by the American Water Works Association (AWWA). Nancy Quirk (pictured right), general manager of the Green Bay Water Utility in Wisconsin, was sworn in as one of 15 members […]
Piney Point: Florida lawmakers budget $3 million to clean up Piney Point and help “put it behind us once and for all”
Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility that has been leaking potentially toxic water in the Tampa Bay area, may soon be cleaned up and heading to permanent closure. On Wednesday, Florida state senators passed an amendment that would allocate $3 million to clean up and safely dispose of the wastewater that, for decades, has […]
Piney Point: Florida’s latest regulatory nightmare exposes a glaring national failure
As environmental regulators and politicians nervously saluted efforts to prevent the catastrophic release of millions of gallons of wastewater from the aging Piney Point phosphogypsum wastewater storage pond near Tampa, Fla., this week, there was scarce little talk of how we got here. Or of how we’ll prevent similar disasters moving forward. Much like the […]
Piney Point: What you need to know on Monday about evacuations, wastewater dangers
Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection approved the pumping of wastewater into the Tampa Bay ecosystem from a reservoir at Piney Point – a former phosphate plant in Manatee County. A leak in the liner of the reservoir has caused a partial breach in one of the containment walls and officials hope that […]
Piney Point: Florida reservoir collapse: What is phosphogypsum and is it radioactive?
Manatee County officials along Florida’s Gulf Coast have ordered more than 300 people to flee from their homes should the reservoir breach. The collapse of the Piney Point reservoir threatens a full-blown environmental disaster at a former phosphate mining facility. The National Guard has been deployed to help coordinate the emergency response after one of […]