ARCATA – Among the items on the Wednesday, Feb. 5 City Council agenda is community water fluoridation. Arcata has fluoridated its water since the early 1960s, and in 2006 defeated by 62 to 38 percent Measure W, which would have ceased fluoridation. Councilmember Paul Pitino According to a city staff report, Councilmember Paul Pitino has […]
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NNSA Plans to Take Some Portsmouth DUF6 for Weapons Programs
The National Nuclear Security Administration has decided to use a cleanup facility in Ohio to help produce high-purity depleted uranium metal for nuclear weapons programs. The semiautonomous Department of Energy weapons agency will do that by installing a fourth process line at the depleted uranium hexafluoride conversion facility at the Portsmouth Site near Piketon, Ohio, […]
Philadelphia, state join suit against EPA over chemical-safety rules at industrial sites
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania sued the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday in a challenge to the agency’s rollback of an Obama-era chemical safety rule related to industrial facilities like the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery complex. The city and state joined 13 other states and the District of Columbia in a federal lawsuit that says the new rules violate the Clean […]
Unpublished response to Jennifer Meyer’s January 24, 2020, article in The Stat
Note from Fluoride Action Network The following is a response to a January 24, 2020, article by Jennifer Meyer, published in the STAT, in which she smeared the Fluoride Action Network with this comment: ‘critics often attack fluoridation by citing “medical freedom” and sharing conspiracy theories which unjustly blame all manner of ills — from […]
National Children’s Dental Health Month highlights optimally fluoridated water
Note from Fluoride Action Network, It it shocking that the American Dental Association (ADA) states in this article, “More than 75 years of scientific research has consistently shown that a recommended level of fluoride in community water is safe and effective…” ADA has been grievously negligent in warning families and/or caregivers against using fluoridated tap […]
Two years after fluoride spill exceeded federal limits, CFPUA resumes adding chemical at Richardson Plant
In April of 2018, approximately 30,000 customers north of Wilmington were told not to drink or cook with their water by the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority. (Port City Daily photo | FILE) NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Nearly two years ago, 30,000 customers of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority awoke to robocalls and an […]
Parents in Lincoln County blame tap water for their children’s discolored teeth
WINFIELD, Mo. (KMOV.com) — Albert McDaniel is the father of five children and recently three of them were diagnosed with fluorosis. That’s a cosmetic condition that causes the teeth of children to have white spots and discoloration because of the consumption of too much fluoride. “If you’ve got kids 9 and under, don’t let them […]
CFPUA resumes adding fluoride to drinking water
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – Starting Tuesday, CFPUA will resume adding fluoride to drinking water coming from the Richardson Water Treatment Plant. The Richardson plant serves customers in northern New Hanover County, including Murrayville, Wrightsboro, Porters Neck, and parts of Castle Hayne and Ogden. Its source water comes from groundwater wells. Drinking fluoridated water keeps teeth […]
Iowa ranks in top 20 or community water fluoridation
Note from the Fluoride Action Network, This article, a press release from the Iowa Department of Public Health, is surely a historical document. It notes that “100 national and international organizations, including the American Cancer Society, the World Health Organization and the American Medical Society” support fluoridation. With all the resources available to these organizations […]
“Forever Chemicals” Test The Fate of America’s Drinking Water
Excerpt …In 2019 one of the CDC’s ten greatest public health achievements of the 20th century was widely challenged. Published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics in late 2019 was the first study to estimate fluoride exposure in a large birth cohort receiving optimally fluoridated water. The study forced many to re-examine the practice of water fluoridation including the […]