Introduces Two Bills to Respond to Water Crisis in Newburgh, Nationwide Newburgh, NY – Weeks after announcing the launch of a biomonitoring program to test Newburgh residents for the contaminant perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), which was found in the Newburgh water supply, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney announced the introduction of two bills to improve and expand […]
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Greenfield Board of Health to hear proposal to add fluoride to water supply
GREENFIELD — The Community Health Center of Franklin County has suggested that the town consider adding fluoride to its public water supply after a dental hygienist found a significant amount of tooth decay and oral health problems in young children while visiting local schools. Edward Sayer, CEO of the Community Health Center, will speak before […]
Greenville: Council to consider adding fluoride back into water supply
The Greenville City Council may vote to resume adding fluoride into the local water supply for the first time in two years. The council is scheduled to meet in a regular session starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, with the regular agenda set to begin at 5 p.m. Tuesday. In a memo to the council, Director […]
Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells: Water fluoridation set for November vote
Voters in the seven communities served by the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District will vote next month on whether to continue adding fluoride to drinking water. The push to put the issue to voters is backed by a small group of residents who say adding fluoride to drinking water amounts to mass medicating and […]
Coke and Pepsi Give Millions to Public Health, Then Lobby Against It
The beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have given millions of dollars to nearly 100 prominent health groups in recent years, while simultaneously spending millions to defeat public health legislation that would reduce Americans’ soda intake, according to public health researchers. The findings, published on Monday in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, document the beverage […]
Two water providers in court over fluoride
Two water providers in north Arkansas are fighting the state’s fluoride mandate. Neither entity provides water to retail customers, so they aren’t “water systems” as defined by Act 197 of 2011, according to circuit court filings in Madison and Boone counties. The Arkansas Department of Health disagrees. R. Christopher Lawson, a Fayetteville lawyer, represents the […]
Bisbee to reduce fluoride in water supply
BISBEE — Bisbee Council members voted to reduce how much fluoride is added to the city’s water supply Tuesday night, and they will seek more information before deciding whether to stop adding it all together. Ward 1 Council Member Serena Sullivan said she made numerous attempts to contact Unibar, the company that supplies the fluoride, […]
Clay City will reinstate fluoride treatment
Clay City will once again treat the town’s water with fluoride when final repairs to the city’s water filtration system are complete next year. Temporary repairs have been completed. The matter of fluoridation was brought to the town council’s attention by Randi Staley, the town’s certified water system operator. She said fluoride has not been […]
Wilkesboro: Council approves fluoride’s return
After hearing from both sides of the issue Monday night, the Wilkesboro Town Council voted unanimously to immediately start putting fluoride back in the town’s water supply. After 15 months without fluoride, Town Manager Ken Noland said last month in a town council work session that the town wasn’t going to return fluoride to the […]
Thumbs down: No on Healdsburg’s Measure T — keep fluoridation
Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Healdsburg voters will be deciding whether to continue the city’s 60-year practice of fluoridating its water. If that sounds familiar, it should. Residents voted on the same issue just two years when, by a nearly 2-1 margin, they supported the city’s continued use of fluoride. Nevertheless, the issue […]