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Rensselaer Receives Funding to Reduce Nuclear Waste, Advance Clean Energy
Rensselaer researchers will focus on developing a solution for effectively managing complex fluoride salt waste streams. iStock Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been awarded $607,505 from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to help develop technologies to resolve the waste and storage challenges associated with Advanced Nuclear Reactor fuel cycles. The project […]
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New York Statewide Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report (1990-2019)
Excerpts from the Summary Report I. Introduction to the Report This annual report on statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions provides a summary of emissions for the years 1990-2019 and includes information on the relative contribution of each gas and emission source specified in the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.2 This includes all anthropogenic greenhouse […]
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Scarsdale awarded $260,000 fluoridation grant from New York State Department of Health
RESOLUTION RE: AMENDING THE FY 2021-22 ADOPTED BUDGET TO APPROPRIATE FUNDING TO THE FLUORIDE UPGRADES CAPITAL PROJECT WHEREAS, the Village of Scarsdale was awarded a $260,000 grant from the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) in October 2018 to fund 100% of the costs in connection with fluoridation and water quality improvements at the […]
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The NY State Department of Health announces the availability of funding for Drinking Water Fluoridation.
NYSDA [New York State Dental Association] and its charitable arm, the New York State Dental Foundation (the Foundation), have long been strong advocates for an infrastructure funding program to implement fluoridation of community water systems and to replace aging water fluoridation equipment in communities throughout New York State. This essential initiative removes the possibility of […]
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Fluoridation May Be Doing More Dental Harm Than Good, Researchers Report, Using US Statistics
70% of Children Now Afflicted with Dental Fluorosis NEW YORK, July 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Federal data reveals “even low levels of water or plasma fluoride exposure was associated with increased risk of dental fluorosis [white spotted, yellow or brown splotched teeth],” writes Dong, et al., reflecting 2015-2016 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) in […]
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Study: “Safe” Water Fluoride Levels Linked to Hip Fractures
Natural water fluoride levels (ranging from 0 to 1 mg/L), considered safe in the US, are linked to hip fractures in Swedish elderly women when total fluoride intake is calculated, concludes a new study published in the Journal, Environmental health Perspectives (April 2021), by Helte, et al., reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to […]
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PFOA, PFOS Levels At A Few Hudson Valley Schools Prompt NYS DOH Advisories
Three schools in the Hudson Valley have “Do Not Drink” advisories after two PFAS chemicals were found above New York state’s contamination limits. These are among the first schools with the higher levels since the state adopted new maximum contaminant levels for PFOA and PFOS over the summer. The New York state Department of Health […]
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Yorktown. Letter: Don’t Force Fluoride on Me
The debate about adding a toxic substance, fluoride, to our drinking water has its pros and cons. Yorktown has been without water fluoridation for a long time now. I have not heard of any problems with an increase of cavities, have you? If there are people who want fluoride treatment for their teeth, there are […]
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Dr. Arthur Bushel “launched one of the first campaigns to prevent cavities by fluoridating the New York City water supply”
The title of the article: Dr. Arthur Bushel, dental health pioneer, dies Dr. Arthur Bushel, a retired dentist who taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was an expert on fluoridation, died of complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus Nov. 21 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. He was 99. Born in […]
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Yorktown’s Over-Budget Fluoride Project Runs into More Problems
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Nearly eight years ago, the Town Board voted to keep fluoride in its drinking water. The town later received a $901,050 grant from the state to build a town-operated fluoride system—a place to dose its water with the naturally occurring mineral, which is said to protect and strengthen tooth enamel, thereby reducing […]
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