ACTION: Notice of availability of environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact. Sep 27, 2013 (Menafn – FIND, Inc. via COMTEX) –SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is considering the issuance of a license amendment to Source Materials License SUA-526 issued to Honeywell International, Inc. (Honeywell) for its Metropolis Works Facility (MWF) in […]
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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.
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Santa Rosa: Forum on fluoridation slated Sept. 30 at Glaser Center
Learn more about water fluoridation at a free educational forum on Monday, Sept. 30 from 6-8 p.m., at the Glaser Center located 547 Mendocino Ave. in Santa Rosa. The forum will have an impartial moderator, with two dentists speaking in support of fluoridation, and two dentists sharing the reasons they oppose fluoridation. One who will […]
California’s new fracking law divides environmentalists
Over the past year, legislators in Sacramento introduced a flurry of bills in an effort to study or tighten the leash on fracking in California. Most efforts failed, but in mid-September Gov. Jerry Brown state Sen. Fran Pavley’s SB-4, which regulates two methods of extracting tightly-bound oil in California’s Monterey Shale formation — hydraulic fracturing […]
New director takes helm of Gilbert’s troubled Public Works Department
One year after Gilbert officials discovered the town had stopped adding fluoride to its drinking water because of an unreported equipment failure, the Public Works Department is under new management with the Sept. 23 arrival of a permanent director. Ken Morgan, previously deputy water-services director in Phoenix, took the helm of Gilbert’s utility operations following […]
Sept 27 in Green Bay: The Case Against Fluoride by Paul Connett
On Friday, Sept 27, at 10:30am at the Neville Public Museum in Green Bay a powerpoint presentation and lunch with environmental chemist and toxicologist Paul Connett, PhD, author of “The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There.” Green Bay […]
Columbia: Board OKs fluoride removal from water
Columbia City Council member Mike Greene grew up in a rural area drinking well water without fluoride, and he still has all his teeth. His parents, who drank the same water, have their teeth, and his siblings have theirs. “Everybody can afford to take care of their teeth,” Greene said. “… I grew up in […]
Gilbert group gears up to launch campaign against fluoridation
A newly-formed political-action committee in Gilbert is building a case against adding fluoride to the town’s drinking water and plans to circulate petitions aimed at taking the issue to the November 2014 ballot. The Gilbert Safe Water Coalition, organized in June and about two dozen members strong, is focused on educating the community about fluoride […]
The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Far-Reaching Phosphate Pollution
While the pollution at the FMC site rivals the story in the movie Erin Brockovich, the story of phosphate in Idaho actually has a much wider reach, spanning the entire Phosphoria Formation that lies underground across western Idaho, southwestern Montana, western Wyoming and northern Utah. Deposited by an ancient shallow sea, the deposits have yielded […]
Clarksburg. Water Board: Fluoridation will continue for now
The Clarksburg Water Board will not be taking fluoride out of the water supply any time soon. The Water Board took no action Tuesday after hearing from health professionals arguing that fluoride reduces tooth decay and is safe in low concentrations and from opponents who question both assertions. Board President Al Cox, who leans towards […]
The Wound That Won’t Heal: Idaho’s Phosphate Problem
This is the first story in a three-part series about phosphate mining in southeast Idaho and its effects on the Shoshone-Bannock tribes. In this installment, Indian Country Today Media Network takes a historic look at the defunct FMC plant on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in southeast Idaho. In coming stories, we’ll look at the […]