Excerpts: The federal judge overseeing the first-time trial next month on whether EPA must regulate water fluoridation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has codified his earlier verbal rulings barring the agency from presenting evidence on the practice’s benefits while leaving the door open for EPA to argue that it could defer any regulation. […]
NEW YORK, The judge in a June 8 federal court trial in San Francisco has cleared the way for three international experts in neurotoxicity to testify on the risks of fluoride in public water supplies, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) reports. In addition, the court ruled that the purported benefits of community water fluoridation cannot be part of the trial, restricting testimony […]
Russia’s Electrochemical Plant (ECP) at Zelenogorsk in Krasnoyarsk in May completed the processing of 100,000 tons of depleted uranium hexafluoride (DUHF) at its W-ECP plant. “Thanks to the painstaking systematic work performed by the staff of the Electrochemical Plant, the plant has been operating stably for 10 years of operation, without failures, successfully completing its […]
Driving from Laramie to Walden, Colorado in the 1980s and 1990s, travelers passed a stockpile of white material filling long trenches perpendicular to Highway 125 just a few miles north of Cowdrey. This material was fluorspar, the industrial name given to the mineral fluorite, a mixture of calcium and fluorine. Then, in the summer of […]
PLANS to fluoridate the Gunnedah shire’s water supply are nearly complete and construction of water infrastructure is slated to start next year. A new water treatment plant for the fluoridation process is set to be built on Kelvin Road, although an exact location has yet to be finalised. A Gunnedah Shire Council spokesperson said the […]
Please be advised that during routine water testing it was found that fluoride concentration reported to be 2.0 to 2.5 mg/L at well 5 and between 0.8 and 1.9 mg/L in the distribution system. These results indicate concentrations in excess of the Ontario Drinking Water Quality Standard of 1.5 mg/L at some times and locations […]
Trial of a groundbreaking case challenging fluoridation of U.S. public water supplies has moved to within a month of start, with several significant rulings by the judge in the case, according to Fluoride Action Network (FAN), lead plaintiff. The rulings affect the scope of testimony, excluding consideration of fluoridation’s purported benefits, and affirm that three […]
The study analyzed data from 3 GW of solar installations, nine million panels, and 551 installations DuPont has released its ‘Global Photovoltaic Reliability Report’ with findings from studies conducted on solar modules across the globe to track material degradation and how it affects module performance. The 2020 field report tested around 3 GW worth of […]
ADA Council on Advocacy for Access and Prevention’s National Fluoridation Advisory Committee sponsoring series In honor of the 75th anniversary of community water fluoridation, the ADA Council on Advocacy for Access and Prevention’s National Fluoridation Advisory Committee will offer a series of four Zoom webinars in July that will include continuing education credit for each. […]
Amidst the pandemic headlines, you may have missed that in April, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law a bill allowing pharmacists to dispense self-administered birth control (like pills and patches), as well as the injection, directly to patients over 18. (The bill also allows pharmacists to furnish opioid antagonists, epinephrine, fluoride supplements and prenatal […]
