Money can’t buy toothiness. The final spending tallies on the battle over Ballot Measure 26-151 show the pro-fluoride campaign outspent opponents nearly 3-to-1—and still lost by 20 percent of the vote in the May 21 special election. Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland, the pro-fluoride campaign, spent $889,038 during the fluoride fight. The anti-fluoridation campaign, Clean Water […]
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Portland: The election may be over, but fluoride is still a hot topic
A new petition recently submitted to the City of Portland called the ‘Portland Clean Water Measure’ could be the next move in the fluoride debate. On May 21, voters defeated a measure to put fluoride into Portland’s drinking water. It was the first time in 30 years that the issue had been put on the […]
Portland: Health Authority director asks for review of how fluoride report was handled
The Oregon Health Authority has staunchly maintained that there was nothing inappropriate about the fact that state officials managing a survey of kids’ oral health met with the architects of Portland’s pro-fluoride campaign in January. Despite e-mails indicating a staffer had gone over details (though no specific data) of the report with Upstream Public Health […]
Memphis: Fluoridation Altercation
Local fluoride opponents bare their teeth For decades, municipalities across the country have added fluoride to public water as a cost-effective way of reducing tooth decay. According to the American Dental Association, more than 70 percent of Americans who are served by public water systems receive optimally fluoridated water. Memphis Light, Gas & Water (MLGW) […]
Portland, Oregon, Votes Down Plan to Fluoridate its Water, Again
For the fourth time since the 1950s, voters in Portland, Oregon, a city known for its embrace of progressive values, last week voted down a plan passed by the city commission to fluoridate its water. A local paper tried to make sense of it all: For people used to thinking of Portland as the earnestly quirky liberal […]
Ohio-WV: C8 medical panel decides protocol
Medical monitoring protocols have been established by the three-member C8 Medical Monitoring Panel. … The six affected water districts that were part of the C8 lawsuit are Belpre, Little Hocking, Pomeroy and Tuppers Plains in Ohio and Lubeck Public Service District and Mason County PSD in West Virginia. The original class action was filed in […]
Portland. Hotseat: Kim Kaminski. For the strategist behind fluoride’s defeat, the fight isn’t over.
Kim Kaminski just got done burying the Portland power machine in the May 21 election, so excuse her if she’s a bit direct. Kaminski led Clean Water Portland, the campaign against fluoridating Portland’s drinking water. Outspent 3-to-1, opponents crushed the measure, 61 percent to 39 percent. In many ways, the vote had been the fight […]
Why Reporting Nitrogen Trifluoride (NF3) Matters
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol now requires nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), a chemical released in some high-tech industries including electronics manufacturing, to be included in GHG inventories under the Corporate Standard, Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, and Product Standard. The amendment keeps the GHG Protocol’s reporting requirements aligned with those of the United Nations Framework Convention on […]
ADEQ consent order requires Prescott to clear up water fluoride issue
The City of Prescott took the first step Tuesday in a yearlong process to improve the quality of the effluent (treated wastewater) coming out of the Airport Wastewater Treatment Plant. In a unanimous vote, the Prescott City Council approved an Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADQ) “consent order” that requires the city to deal with […]
Portland. BREAKING: State Public Health Director to Step Down
Oregon’s public health director is leaving the position, amid a threatened lawsuit and accusations the agency colluded with pro-fluoride advocates on the release of an oral health report. Dr. Mel Kohn today sent an e-mail out to colleagues at the Oregon Health Authority, saying he’ll step down as head of the OHA’s Public Health Division […]