The fight over fluoridating Portland’s water isn’t finished. Voters overwhelmingly defeated Ballot Measure 26-161 in Tuesday’s election, repealing the City Council’s plan to fluoridate the water. But opponents have already filed an initiative petition for a City Charter change to prevent the council from ever doing it in the future. They temporarily stopped gathering signatures […]
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Brooksville: Fluoridation talk of town
Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn said earlier this year, if the Hernando County Health Department was to present the benefits of fluoride in tap water, she’d like to hear the other side. During Tuesday evening’s water fluoridation workshop, Bradburn took matters into her own hands, and presented what she believed to be the dangers of fluoride […]
EPA fines Louisiana phosphoric acid manufacter to reduce hydrogen fluoride emissions
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced that PCS Nitrogen has agreed to reduce air emissions from phosphoric acid production at its facility in Geismar, La. “Reducing pollution from mining and mineral processing operations is one of EPA’s national enforcement initiatives because these facilities release more […]
Portland. State Rep. Ben Unger: stung by fluoridation loss
After Tuesday night’s resounding defeat of Portland’s fluoridation measure, Oregon State Rep. Ben Unger (D-Hillsboro) must still be licking his wounds. As a career political operative, Unger has grown quite used to being on the winning side of campaigns. His campaign website lists these achievements, starting with his election as student body vice-president at the […]
Portland’s Vote Reflects Recent Scientific Findings on Fluoridation’s Risks
Portland, Oregon, the largest U.S. city without fluoridation chemicals added to its drinking water, rejected water fluoridation Tuesday in an election watched around the country. Despite being outspent by more than a 3 to 1 margin, fluoridation opponents defeated the measure with the current vote count at 60.5 to 39.4%. The latest polling showed especially […]
Oak Ridge scientist Thiessen concerned with EPA fluoride maximum
An Oak Ridge-based scientist told a community group Tuesday that she believes the Environmental Protection Agency regulations concerning the maximum allowable concentration of fluoride in drinking water, far higher than found in local water supplies, do not include an adequate safety margin. Kathleen Thiessen, senior scientist with SENES, Oak Ridge Inc., Center for Risk Analysis, […]
Portland fluoride: For the fourth time since 1956, Portland voters reject fluoridation
Fluoride supporters, it appeared, had everything going for them. Five Portland city commissioners had voted to add fluoride to the city water supply. Health advocacy groups, and many of the city’s communities of color, lined up behind the cause. And proponents outraised opponents 3-to-1. But none of that was enough. For the fourth time since […]
Pro-fluoride group concedes – Voters reject fluoridation in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. – Early returns Tuesday night showed voters rejecting fluoridating Portland’s water 60 percent to 40 percent. And just before 9 p.m., the pro-fluoride group Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland conceded it would not win its battle to get fluoride added to the city’s water. Get the latest results for this measure. But the campaign […]
A brief history of America’s fluoride wars
The fluoridation war is alive in Portland, Ore. The city is one of the few major American cities that does not fluoridate its water supply. It is now in the middle of a heated battle about whether to change that. While the Portland City Council voted last fall to reverse policy and begin fluoridating the […]
Portland Uses Science & Integrity to Defeat Fluoridation
A broad coalition of Portlanders have resoundingly rejected adding fluoridation chemicals to the city’s water supply. By a 61% to 39% margin, Portland voters agreed with the positon of most western nations that there are safer, more effective, and less intrusive ways to promote oral health than adding a chemical linked to thyroid disease, IQ loss, and […]