The Dow Chemical Company has signed a definitive agreement to sell its Dow AgroSciences post-harvest and structural fumigant business, sulfuryl fluoride, to Douglas Products. This transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2015. ***Editor’s note: The story was updated on 5/11, at 10:30 a.m., with additional PCT reporting*** INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — The […]
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Sonoma County: Find out if fluoridation is for you, May 19
On May 19, the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors might vote to fluoridate our water supply and it will not be about tooth decay but truth decay. Modern science shows that fluoridation is both ineffective and toxic with strong links to lowered child IQ, ADHD, hypothyroidism, skeletal fluorosis often misdiagnosed as osteoarthritis with increased hip […]
Syracuse editorial: Why are we still arguing about fluoridated water 70 years later?
It’s unthinkable, that 70 years after fluoride was first put into a public water system preventing untold number of cavities in the American population that a Central New York community again voted down fluoridation. The City of Oneida Tuesday voted not to put fluoride in its water supply. It followed similar votes in 2002 and […]
Institute of Medicine & National Academy of Sciences fail US
The Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences have failed the public in the performance of their duties regarding the ongoing poisoning of public water supplies with fluoride. This neurotoxin is dumped into our drinking water in hazardous industrial waste batches that include hydrofluorosilicic acid, sodium fluorosilicate, sodium fluoride and a host of tramp […]
PFOS-Based Fume Suppressants: Phased Out by September
In EPA’s final chromium electroplating NESHAP rule, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS)-based fume suppressants can no longer be added to chromium plating tanks after September 21, 2015. Global manufacturers of these compounds have agreed to phase out their sale by December 31, 2015. Facilities can comply with the chromium electroplating NESHAP by either meeting the surface […]
DuPont’s W.Va., Ohio neighbors worry Chemours won’t pay C8 bills
DuPont Co.’s plan to spin off its Teflon unit is spurring concern on the West Virginia-Ohio border that the new company won’t cover medical payments for residents sickened by a chemical long-used at the production plant. In 2004, as a result of a class action filed three years earlier, DuPont agreed to pay $235 million […]
Rockport Votes to Keep Fluoride
ROCKPORT — The voters have spoken: Rockport will continue adding fluoride to the town water supply. The oft-contentious debate, which ran the gamut from dueling letters on the editorial pages of the Gloucester Daily Times to personal faceoffs over the scientific benefits or dangers of adding the compound to the public’s water, was settled Tuesday […]
Fluoridation voted down in Oneida, 5-1 (Update)
ONEIDA – Fluoridating the city water supply was rejected at Tuesday night’s Common Council meeting with 5 “No” votes and a sole “Yes,” from Helen Acker. Voting “No” were common councilors Brahim Zogby, Michael Bowe, Erwin Smith, Jim Chamberlain and Tom Simchik. “I followed the medical issue and did homework,” said Acker on Wednesday concerning […]
Park Hills: City may stop adding fluoride to drinking water
Park Hills city leaders are looking into the possibility of putting an end to its practice of adding fluoride to the town’s drinking water system. Members of the Park Hills City Council discussed the topic during a recent work session. City Administrator Matt Whitwell said he asked council members at the meeting if anyone was […]
Petition may put fluoridation before San Marcos on the ballot
San Marcos voters may be asked to decide an issue that dates back to the 1950s when some considered it a “Commie plot.” We’re talking about fluoridating our water supply. A San Marcos group just wrapped up a petition drive that could put the controversial issue on the November Ballot. Tuesday night the San Marcos […]