CUMBERLAND — In response to a recent question from a citizen on the current level of fluoride in Cumberland’s drinking water, Mayor Brian Grim said the amount of the chemical added to the city’s water supply has been reduced by half in recent years. Speaking during the public input portion of the June 17 meeting […]
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Fluoride in water? Washington’s Kalama, with Portland native on city council, preps for potential vote
A small Washington city is considering giving its residents a say in whether fluoride should continue to be added to city drinking water, some fifty years after the chemical was first added to local tap water. Kalama, in Cowlitz County, could consider giving its 2,344 residents a vote to remove fluoride from its water supply. According […]
Traverse City: Fluoridation opponents could get issue to voters
Ben Hansen, who leads the group Fluoride Free in TC, is among those working to pull together a petition to circulate among Traverse City voters to create an ordinance that would stop fluoridation. “I am baffled, I am disappointed, and I am disgusted by what happened,” Hansen said of the commissioners’ vote. City commissioners voted […]
Workers demolishing inactive facility at DOE’s Paducah site
PADUCAH, KY (KFVS) – The last 32 inactive facilities at the Department of Energy’s Paducah, Kentucky site are being demolished. The C-140 Feed Plant is expected to be razed to slab by fall, ridding the site of a structure contaminated with asbestos and a low-level radioactive chemical compound called uranium hexafluoride. With an original footprint […]
Valparaiso panel told of ill-effects of fluoride in water supply
As a special committee contemplates whether to continue adding fluoride to city drinking water, anti-fluoride advocates spoke Wednesday about the dangers of fluoride. Four speakers presented a number of possible health problems and risks from fluoridation, using online videos. The speakers repeated three points: Fluoride is only effective topically, is unsafe for babies and is […]
Boyne City commissioners deny fluoride vote request
… Following a brief procedural discussion the commission voted 3-2 against putting the question on the November ballot. Commissioners Laura Sansom, Derek Gaylord and Gene Towne voted against placing the question on the ballot, while mayor Ron Grunch and commissioner Tom Neidhamer voted in favor of putting it on the ballot. The vote was split […]
Letter: Get fluoride out of Rockport’s water
To the editor: Stop adding extra fluoride to the drinking water now! The Cape Ann Fluoride Action Network members met this week with the Rockport Board of Selectmen, and I gave the selectmen a copy of the petition we were hoping to present at September’s Fall Town Meeting. Although the town clerk, who I sincerely […]
Anti-fluoride group wants chemical removed from Fircrest water supply
A single mother of three young boys, Debbie Cook cares about nutrition. She buys organic food when she can afford it and has considered planting a garden of pesticide-free produce. Then she thinks about the water she’d have to use to help the garden grow. “I would (have to) water it with fluoridated water,” said […]
Scientists confirm Israel health minister’s fluoridation concerns are justified
Scientists and professionals from around the world applaud the decision made by Israel Health Minister, Yael German, to end mandatory fluoridation in Israel to protect the health of Israelis and decry the political backlash she’s received to reverse her scientifically sound decision, reports the Fluoride Action Network (FAN). The letter describes that: delivering medicine via […]
Solvay Solexis well tests in East Greenwich, West Deptford yield ‘quantifiable levels’ of chemicals
The first results from tests of private water wells in East Greenwich and West Deptford reveal that seven out of the 50 wells surveyed so far have been found to contain “quantifiable levels” of the chemical contamination. Solvay Solexis, the plastics company currently testing municipal water supplies in multiple towns over fears of heightened levels […]