Excerpts: Fluoride is a human developmental neurotoxin that lowers children’s IQ levels, a Harvard University epidemiologist warned during a California federal bench trial Tuesday, testifying on behalf of nonprofit groups seeking to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban adding fluoride to 200 million Americans’ drinking water. “The current exposure levels are way too […]
SAN FRANCISCO—At 8:00 in the morning on Monday, June 8, a lawsuit demanding that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ban fluoride chemicals from U.S. water supplies went to trial in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco. Three groups brought the case against the EPA to court. These groups […]
Highlights Fluoride occurence in groundwater systems of the study area is space dependent. The univariate local Moran’s I statistic has been used to identify significant regional hotspots and cool spots. Geoinformation on hotspots and cool spots is important for planning of new safe drinking water source development. Fluoride is mobilized from volcanic igneous rocks of […]
GREEN BAY — From Brenda Staudenmaier’s perspective, ending the fluoridation of drinking water ought to have been the easiest problem in the world to solve. “Unlike other issues like leaded water pipes and asbestos, all one has to do with fluoride is have their utility stop spending money on the toxic waste hydrofluorosilicic acid and unplug the dosing […]
Excerpts: … Groups seeking to ban drinking-water fluoridation argued during the opening of a California federal bench trial Monday that fluoride poses significant neurological risks to newborns, while the EPA argued that they don’t have standing to sue and that their experts cite a “hodgepodge” of unreliable studies. … the plaintiffs’ expert, University of Washington […]
Rock Springs has discontinued using fluoride in its water system. According to the meeting minutes from the April 20 utility board meeting and a May newsletter on the village’s website, Rock Springs decided to remove the chemical from its water after the pump to dispense the chemical into the water was not working properly. Village […]
Excerpts: At the start of the first-time Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) section 21 trial June 8, attorneys for EPA and environmentalists each spent much of their opening comments defending the integrity of their expert witnesses in the case, while attempting to undermine the credibility of the other sides’ experts. The plaintiffs in the case, […]
NEW YORK, June 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Top experts in children’s brain development were scheduled to lead off testimony Monday in a groundbreaking case that challenges the nation’s water fluoridation program, according to the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). Pre-filed “Declarations” of Drs. Howard Hu and Bruce Lanphear, both medical doctors and research scientists, make clear […]
GE-Hitachi Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) have signed an amendment to their agreement for the sale of depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF6) inventories underpinning plans for a commercial laser enrichment facility at Paducah in Kentucky. Separately, the DOE has formalised how it plans to dispose of any waste depleted uranium […]
About 200 million Americans, nearly two-thirds of the population, drink water containing fluoride to fight tooth decay. That could be changed by a case now on trial in a San Francisco federal court. Consumer groups including Food and Water Watch, the Fluoride Action Network and Moms Against Fluoridation contend recent studies show that when pregnant […]
