OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown […]
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Upstate NY: Get your fluoride questions ready
Experts on both sides of the water fluoridation debate will answer questions in separate live chats online at Syracuse.com. The village of Pulaski in Oswego County recently decided to stop fluoridating its water. Dr. Cynthia Morrow, commissioner of health for Onondaga County, will be taking syracuse.com readers’ questions Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Paul […]
Pulaski fluoride story was biased, says head of anti-fluoride group
Editor’s note: This is an unedited letter to reporter Marnie Eisenstadt about the story she wrote Sunday on Pulaski’s decision to stop fluoridating its water. Connett gave permission for it to be published. Marnie, your pro-fluoridation connections are showing. Back in 2005 you wrote a front-page article for the Syracuse Post-Standard (M. Eisenstadt, “How Fluoride […]
Column. Bradford: Keep the Ban on Fluoridation
When getting my Ph.D. at Dartmouth, I relied on the Valley News for well-informed opinion; thus, I was deeply shocked to read its Dec. 2 editorial on water fluoridation. Having researched this issue for 16 years, first as a professor of environmental chemistry and then as director of the Fluoride Action Network, I believe this […]
Editorial. Reckless ‘Caution’: Decision to stop fluoridation not evidence-based
Water fluoridation is just counterintuitive enough to keep controversy alive — even though the process has worked for 65 years to reduce child and adult tooth decay. First, there’s reflexive reluctance to add a chemical to the public water supply — without the informed consent of constituents. Then there’s the fact that concentrated fluoride is […]
Will Portland City Council push for a fluoride vote in 2013?
Fluoride proponents are testing the waters at Portland City Hall to see if officials will schedule a public vote sometime in 2013 instead of 2014. Last month, opponents blocked the City Council’s unanimous September decision that would have added fluoride to drinking water reaching roughly 900,000 residents in Portland and the suburbs. The successful referendum […]
Vote: No fluoride in Pine Island water supply
PINE ISLAND, FL -After months of debate, the Greater Pine Island Water Association says it will not add fluoride to its customers’ water. Board members voted on the controversial issue Tuesday afternoon. It was a big win for a small but very vocal group of neighbors living on Pine Island. The Water Association fought for […]
Athens County residents file C8-related lawsuits
Four Athens County residents filed lawsuits last week in Athens County Common Pleas Court against E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., over the company’s contamination of drinking-water supplies with C8, a chemical used in the manufacturing of Teflon at a DuPont plant in West Virginia. The four largely identical complaints, filed by West Virginia attorney […]
Why Pulaski pulled the plug on fluoride
Pulaski, N.Y. — A decade ago, it was not uncommon for Harlow Dunton to look into the mouth of a 6-year-old and find a tooth so rotted and infected that he’d have to pull it. That changed for the village of Pulaski dentist after 2005, when the village began adding fluoride to its water supply. […]
Carroll-Boone Water District manager Jim Allison dies
EUREKA SPRINGS — James Ray Allison, office manager of the Carroll-Boone Water District, passed away suddenly Sunday of unknown causes at the age of 67. Allison had worked for the water district for about 20 years, with some time in between opening a restaurant in Eureka Springs with his wife, Sandra, and working in a […]