Let’s start with a dirty trick. Is the North Texas Municipal Water District playing honest with its almost 2 million customers when it disputes Erin Brockovich and says its water is as pure as a mountain stream? The Watchdog doesn’t know the answer to that scientific question yet, but I can tell you something the […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
Our news database is categorized by country, state/province, and industry. This collection of articles is constantly being updated with the most recent global news on fluoride-related issues and events.
Metro eyes St. Paul Park refinery following Superior explosion
ST. PAUL PARK — The St. Paul Park refinery, recently sold to Marathon Petroleum, is under fire from legislators and the community for housing hydrogen fluoride after the explosion at Husky Energy refinery in Superior, Wis. The Star Tribune reported last week that records found at the Chicago Environmental Protection Agency office record a “worst-case” […]
In Worst-Case Scenario, Chemical Release At Superior Refinery Would Double Evacuation Area
Entire City Of Superior, Much Of Duluth Would Be Affected A tank containing hydrofluoric acid at the Husky Energy oil refinery recently forced a temporary evacuation in Superior after a series of explosions and fires there. The highly toxic chemical could have prompted an evacuation of more than 25 miles if that tank had been […]
Gov. Study Confirms Fluoride Harms Fetal Brain; Lowers IQ
The first ever US government funded study of fluoride and IQ reveals that pregnant women exposed to fluoride lowers the IQ of their offspring. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives and funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, confirms that mothers who drink water contaminated with fluoride will see a loss of 6 […]
Warning Issued to Parents: Protect Your Child’s Brain and Teeth from this Dangerous Chemical Exposure
CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla., May 11, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) is unifying two events in May, Mother’s Day (May 13) and Fluoride Awareness Week (May 20-27), to issue a warning to parents about a health risk that is often overlooked. More specifically, the non-profit organization, which consists of a global network […]
Minnesota congresswoman calls on refinery to stop using highly toxic chemical
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum said the use of hydrogen fluoride in a major population center is “unacceptable.” U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum is asking Marathon Petroleum to stop using hydrogen fluoride at its St. Paul Park refinery, citing EPA records that say an accidental leak of the highly toxic chemical could, in the worst-case scenario, put […]
No Room in the Womb for Fluoride
Today, the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched its Moms2B Avoid Fluoride campaign to alert pregnant women that consuming fluoride, especially from fluoridated water, can potentially harm the developing brain of their unborn child, according to newly published research. In 2017 and 2018, two “mother-child” studies on the cognitive effect of fluoride on the human fetus […]
FAN campaign targets pregnancy and water fluoridation
The Fluoride Action Network (FAN) launched its “Moms2B Avoid Fluoride” campaign to alert pregnant women that consuming fluoride, especially from fluoridated water, can potentially harm the developing brain of their unborn child, according to newly published research. FAN pointed to to two “mother-child” studies in 2017 and 2018 on the cognitive effect of fluoride on […]
Toxicology Testing Proves Fluoride Causes No Harm
Toxicology Testing: Undoubtedly parents and caregivers who frequent the Internet have been concerned with the ongoing debate about fluoride in drinking water. Advocates both for and against community water fluoridation highly anticipated the testing results. Testing was conducted by the highly praised and ethical federal National Toxicology Program (NTP.) Testing Results Applauded Toxicology Shows Water […]
Superior refinery fire exposes toxic risk of hydrogen fluoride to metro area
Release of hydrogen fluoride in metro could imperil 1.7 million people. Ten miles south of downtown St. Paul, on the banks of the Mississippi River, sits an oil refinery that is by far the largest repository of hydrogen fluoride in Minnesota. In the nearly 80 years the plant has been operating, it has never experienced […]