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TVA approves $250 million contract with Cameco Inc. to supply uranium hexafluoride
MURPHY, N.C. – TVA board members approved $750 million in contracts Friday for the processing and supply of uranium fuel for its fleet of nuclear plants and also approved $53 million for a gypsum dewatering facility at the a.inline_topic:hover { background-color: rgb(234, 234, 234); } Kingston Fossil Plant. The eight-member board met in Murphy, where […]
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San Jose sails against the tide of fluoridation
On Feb. 1 – the start of National Children’s Dental Health Month – San Jose solidified its place atop a list notorious among those battling sugary treats and cavities: it became the largest city in the country that doesn’t add fluoride to its drinking water. That day, San Diego began pumping the compound into its […]
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Southhampton: Solicitors take issue with SHA evidence consideration
THE High Court ruling upholding health chiefs’ controversial decision to fluoridate Hampshire water supplies is to be legally challenged, the Daily Echo can reveal. Solicitors for Southampton mum-of-three Gerri Milner yesterday lodged an application to appeal against part of the judicial review decision made in London last week. They want to challenge Mr Justice Edward […]
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Illinois: Honeywell blocks OSHA safety inspection of Metropolis Nuclear Fuels Plant
METROPOLIS, Ill. – Defying a federal warrant, Honeywell today blocked an OSHA inspection at the company’s Metropolis, Illinois plant. On February 8, the company refused to allow a Honeywell worker chosen by the union to accompany the OSHA inspection team. Federal law gives the union the absolute right to designate a “walk-around” representative. OSHA has […]
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McMahon: State rep. needs broader view. DiPentima takes fluoride fight too far
Never in a million years would I have guessed how controversial the subject of community water fluoridation could be. When I first reported on the issue in November, I was amazed at the response I got from readers. Area dentists and physicians, along with elected officials, came out of the woodwork advocating for community water […]
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Fluoride bill hits Concord
PORTSMOUTH — The fight over community water fluoridation continued in Concord this week as opponents of a community notification bill clashed with supporting lobbyists at the Statehouse. On Wednesday, members of the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs subcommittee took up discussion on House Bill 312, legislation that would require municipalities to send notice […]
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Group warns against mixing formula, fluoridated water
CLEARFIELD —A safe drinking water advocate told the Davis Board of Health last week that mothers who live in areas with fluoridated water need to be advised to breast feed infants or give them ready-to-use formula. Lorna Rosenstein, director of Waterwatch of Utah, asked Davis Board of Health members to require fluoridated public water systems […]
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London: Health unit backs fluoridation
If you don’t like fluoride, better quit drinking London water. The Middlesex-London Health Unit on Thursday voted to support continued fluoridation of city water despite delegations demanding an end to the 53-year-old practice. Without debate or taking questions from a handful of fluoride opponents, the health unit board backed a report that said fluoride in […]
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Sacramento: Teeth and taxes
True story, Bites has never had a cavity. Hey, this column isn’t called Bites for nothing. This good fortune may be partly due to the fact that Bites grew up back east, where for several decades kids have been getting lots and lots of government-issue fluoride in the water. It has always seemed to Bites […]
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NYC. Gennaro: Beware The Anti-Fluoride Charlatans
Published in the Feb 17-23, 2011, edition of the Queens Tribune. Two weeks ago in the Queens Tribune, a City Council colleague of mine wrote a piece entitled, “Fluoride – If in Doubt, Keep It Out.” My colleague believes that the New York City drinking water supply should no longer be fluoridated, and this Council […]
United States, New York