EL DORADO, Kan. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Frontier El Dorado Refining Co. of El Dorado for one alleged willful and 18 alleged serious violations of federal safety and health standards. The agency is proposing penalties totaling $153,500. OSHA initiated its inspection on June 19 under […]
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ACSH, America’s biggest defender of toxic chemicals, ranks fluoridation: #2 Unfounded Health Scare of 2007
The (Unfounded) Scare: The addition of fluoride to tap water causes multiple health problems, including fluorosis, abnormal thyroid function, lower IQ and osteosarcoma. Origin of the Scare: The Environmental Working Group (EWG) published an article in their August 2007 Bulletin entitled “Fluoride in Your Water: Friend or Foe?”(6) The article claimed that “[e]ven the American […]
Fluoridated-water war flows on
To fluoridate or not to fluoridate. The battle rages on. At least in the east-side Salt Lake Valley community of Holladay – and in the mind of state Rep. Sylvia Andersen, R-Sandy. Holladay is where faucets servicing 15,000 residents still dispense nonfluoridated water – despite a 2000 voter mandate. Andersen, for the second year, is […]
Information session on high fluoride levels in Othello Well 6
At last week’s city council workshop, council members learned about an unsuccessful attempt to gauge the entry point of fluoride into Well No. 6, the city’s most productive well. The council earlier decided to go ahead with studies of Well No. 6 to determine where fluoride is entering the well from the aquifer and how […]
Alafia River has high fluoride levels due to phosphate plants
Tampa Bay Water officials say they want to protect water quality in the Alafia River by changing the river’s classification so it must meet drinking water standards. That argument, however, rang hollow Thursday for some Hillsborough County commissioners. They see the reclassification as a way for Tampa Bay Water to transfer future river cleanup costs […]
Suzanne Somers letter to the Malibu Surfside Times
Editor, I just received the letter entitled “Information on Fluoridation of your Drinking Water,” LA Waterworks District No. 29, Malibu (that’s us folks). This information sheet is filled with misleading and untrue information which affects all of us and the health we are enjoying. Fluoride is being presented to us as an opportunity. Nothing could […]
Ashland: Fluoridation hearings on horizon
Town officials plan to hold public hearings early in the new year to discuss adding fluoride to Ashland’s public water supply, which is drawn from the Hopkinton reservoir. “We want to offer public hearings for those in favor and against it,” allowing the Board of Health to take all sides into consideration, said the town’s […]
Othello council discusses high fluoride levels in Well 6
OTHELLO – The Othello City Council listened to a presentation concerning an effort to find the source of high fluoride levels in well number six Monday night. The city contracted to have the well investigated last month to determine where the fluoride is originating from. “In the end, they were unsuccessful in completing the work,” […]
Health Department calls on Pueblo West to add fluoride to water
People who live in Pueblo West may not be getting enough fluoride in their water, and that has the city-county health department concerned about a negative impact on oral health. Water departments in Colorado are not required to add fluoride to drinking water, but the state health department recommends it. Pueblo West does not add […]
Fairbanks: Fluoride advocate too fast, misses evidence trail
INTRO by Alaska Report: This opinion essay is part of a developing dialogue about fluoride in public drinking water in Alaska. It was written in response to a guest opinion favoring fluoride that appeared in the Fairbanks Daily New-Miner. However, Kelly Bostian, the paper’s managing editor, rejected this essay, saying his readers didn’t need the […]