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Ontario, Canada: Cleanup order may be imminent for Hamilton airport
City council has asked the Ministry of the Environment to share the pain of a looming order to clean up pollution at the Hamilton airport. Hamilton could be slapped with a provincial cleanup order at any time now that council has opted — at least for now — not to help pay for a study […]
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Ontario, Canada: Hamilton Council will ante up for PFOS study
The city has agreed to help pay for a probe into the pollution problems at the Hamilton airport. Councillors voted Friday to pay $40,000 for a study of historic perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) contamination at the city-owned airport, a step they were initially reluctant to take for fear of being pegged with costs of the full […]
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Saint John: Council urged to keep fluoride
New Brunswick dentists are urging Saint John Common Council to keep fluoride in the drinking water as the city grapples with swelling water costs. Saint John is one of only three New Brunswick municipalities that continues to add fluoride to the water supply as a way to prevent tooth decay. The others are Oromocto and […]
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Austin: Fluoride-Free Pressley for Council
If you thought Fluoride Free Austin would go quietly into that good night after failing to get a fluoridated-water warning placed on Austin utility bills, you were mistaken. Last Saturday, one of the group’s most outspoken members, Laura Pressley, announced that she is running for City Council, which makes her the first official challenger to […]
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Manitoba: Fluoride fighters flourish
FLIN FLON — Northern Manitoba is either ahead of the fluoridation curve or it’s falling behind. A recent referendum in Churchill, in which a majority called for the end of fluoridation, was just the latest chapter in a movement sweeping the North. Since the mid-1990s, Snow Lake, Cranberry Portage and Flin Flon have all ceased […]
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Grantsburg: Getting rid of the fluoride
GRANTSBURG—It was a close vote Monday night, but by a 3-4 margin, the trustees voted to eliminate the fluoridation of the village’s water supply at the special Grantsburg Village Board meeting… Read full article
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Minnesota: Follow-up bio-monitoring project – Some answers, but more questions
OAKDALE – Less than one week after state officials announced that a follow-up bio-monitoring project showed drops in PFC levels in 164 volunteers, residents attending a state Department of Health open house here Monday night learned there are still more questions about PFCs than answers. The MDH public meeting at Oakdale’s Skyview Elementary School was […]
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Nevada site added to coal ash contamination report
A power plant in Nevada has been added to a list of places where groundwater or soil is contaminated by coal ash — a by-product of generating electricity. A new report from the Environmental Integrity Project says the North Valmy Generating Station between Winnemucca and Battle Mountain is one of nearly 150 sites of contamination. […]
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Waterloo: Fluoride battle outlives referendum
Waterloo’s fluoride debate is more than a year past but a bitter court battle continues as key players square off over a hard-fought referendum. Politicians stopped fluoridating drinking water after residents voted narrowly against it in 2010. Fluoride had been added as a public health measure to prevent cavities. Wednesday, lawyers sparred over municipal charges […]
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Chippewa County: Free fluoride supplements for children 6 months to 16 years old
Attention Parents: Having adequate fluoride in your child’s drinking water or taking a daily fluoride supplement is important in the development of strong teeth. Having stronger teeth is one way to decrease the chance that children will develop cavities. Chippewa County Department of Public Health has a free fluoride supplement program that is available to […]
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