Lea County, New Mexico, shrugs off the loss of an investor’s highly publicized tech-research city to focus on innovative energy programs, including algae, uranium enrichment, and one of the nation’s largest solar projects. In the southeastern corner of New Mexico these days, a booming and diversifying energy industry has produced an enviably low unemployment rate. […]
News Archive
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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Fluoridation: A Statement in Favor
Author says that artificial fluoridation is inexpensive, has no demonstrated risk, and offers considerable financial, medical, and dental benefits. OPINION – August 27, 2012 — My personal experience with fluoridation began by growing up in Phoenix, Arizona, an area with naturally high fluoride. I noticed two consequences. First, my teeth and those of the kids […]
Portland fluoride roundup: Stories, opinions, resources
Fluoridation is back in the headlines — and how — in Portland. This is an issue that directly affects not only Portland families but also families in Gresham, Tigard and Tualatin, which receive Portland drinking water, as well as families living in more than a dozen water districts and water companies that purchase drinking water […]
People make cases for, against fluoridated water
Fluoride: What do you want to know? This story was reported with help of the Public Insight Network, a partnership between journalists and readers. Help inform future coverage of the fluoride issue by telling us what you would like to know. Go to Kansas.com/publicinsight and click on the fluoride link. About once a month you may […]
Editorial: We’re glad 3M — and its jobs — are here
Imagine the impact of luring a Fortune 500 company — say, one of the 3Ms of the world — to our state. Let’s dream big: Make it a company with thousands of employees in good-paying jobs. Make it an ideas powerhouse with a family of products that are global brands. Add a legacy of giving […]
Portland City Council Schedules September 12 Vote on Fluoridating the Water
Comedian George Carlin once joked that everybody complains about their local tap water, and nobody brags about it. Not so in Portland. “Portlanders pride themselves on having some of the best drinking water in the world,” said Kim Kaminski, executive director of Oregonians for Safe Drinking Water, a Portland-based nonprofit that opposes adding fluoride to […]
Utica man wants fluoride removed from city’s drinking water
28 year old Ross Quinn is a lifelong resident of Utica. He wasn’t born yet when Utica residents voted in favor of adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water back in the 1960’s but now wants to try and get it removed. Quinn says he has seen numerous studies on the internet, along with a […]
Portland’s fluoride debate: Reviewing both sides of the controversy
Few issues at Portland City Hall have been as polarizing as a pending decision to add fluoride to the local water supply. On one side, there’s a well-organized campaign in support that features dentists, health care providers and a host of community organizations. On the other is a group of volunteers launching an initiative to […]
Fluoride May Be Neurotoxic in Kids
Exposure to high levels of fluoride in drinking water may harm children’s neurodevelopment, according to a systematic review and metaanalysis of published studies. Philippe Grandjean, MD, PhD, of the Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues found that children living in highly fluoridated areas had significantly lower IQ scores […]
Anti-fluoride group in Wichita issues a debate challenge
An anti-fluoride group on Wednesday challenged the pro-fluoride group Wichitans for Healthy Teeth to a televised debate to be held by Oct. 17, ahead of a November vote on whether Wichita should fluoridate its water. The group Pure Water for Wichita wants “an open and frank discussion” about fluoride, said Ann Garvey, acting as spokesman […]