Minnesota Department of Health Notice of Hearing Date: November 22, 2019 Time: 9:30 a.m. Place: B145, Orville L. Freeman Building, 625 North Robert Street, Saint Paul, MN 55155 • See also Fluoridation Rules Statement of Need and Reasonableness (SONAR) Initial Comment Period closes on December 3, 2019, at 4:30 p.m. The judge must allow written comments […]
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Minnesota: Fluoridation Rules Statement of Need and Resonableness (SONAR) Division
Proposed Amendment to Rules Governing Fluoridation of Municipal Water Supplies, Minnesota Rules 4720.0030, subpart 2. [See pdf] September 2019 [Signed October 7, 2019] Minnesota Department of Health Drinking Water Protection Section P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164-0975 651-201-4770 www.health.state.mn.us I. INTRODUCTION The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) proposes to update its Public Water Supply […]
Duluth City Council adopts resolution to take a closer look at hydrogen fluoride at Husky Refinery
DULUTH, MN- The Husky refinery explosion happened a little over a year ago in Superior. Tonight it was center stage at Duluth city hall. The council adopted a resolution asking the EPA to take a closer look at the use of hydrogen fluoride, a chemical stored at the superior refinery, that could have made the explosion […]
Duluth leaders push for closer look at toxic refinery chemical
Thick smoke pours from the fire at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wis., on April 26, 2018. Bob King | Duluth News Tribune 2018 Duluth Mayor Emily Larson won’t easily forget the day in April 2018 when a massive explosion and fire rocked the Husky Energy oil refinery in neighboring Superior, Wis., sending a […]
Duluth Mayor Wants Husky to Prove HF is Safest Choice
DULUTH, Minn. – Mayor Emily Larson wants Husky to prove that HF is the safest choice for use at its Superior refinery. “I believe our communities have not been made aware of the extent to which HF is dangerous, nor have we been given proof that safer alternatives are not viable,” Larson wrote in a […]
$2.7 million and 180 acres: Lake Elmo settles with 3M
Lake Jane in Lake Elmo. The city announced it reached a settlement to end its lawsuit against 3M over pollutants the company made that were found in Lake Elmo groundwater. (file photo) After decades of contamination findings, lawsuits and finger-pointing, Lake Elmo and 3M have reached a resolution. The city announced it settled its […]
Duluth: Events Saturday highlight climate, impacts of Husky explosion
A green energy summit in Duluth will be followed Saturday by a rally outside the Douglas County courthouse in Superior. Organizers of the rally noted it comes one year and a day after the Husky Energy oil refinery explosion that caused the evacuation of much of Superior. Northwoods 350, a group that professes a desire […]
Minnesota health officials cut safety level of 3M pollutant in half
State officials have toughened up standards — again — for a chemical made by the 3M Co. found in drinking water. Officials with the Minnesota Department of Health on Wednesday said that the safe level for the chemical needs to be slashed almost in half, because of new scientific research. The new standards will have […]
Brainerd: 40 years ago
The impartiality of the Governor’s Comm. on Fluoridation has been “hopelessly compromised” by hiring a pro-fluoridation dentist as a consultant, charged Jack Graham, special counsel to Brainerd in its 20-year fight against forced fluoridation of city water. * Original article, titled This Was Brainerd – Nov. 30, online at http://www.brainerddispatch.com/community/history/4535849-was-brainerd-nov-30
Tapping into Minnesota’s fluoride rules
For the past year, Minnesota has been in step one of a fluoride rule revision. The Post Bulletin consulted the Minnesota Department of Health to see what changes for public water may be coming down the pipeline. What’s the amendment? The proposed amendment will lower the average concentration of fluoride in public water to 0.7 […]