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Council votes down fluoridation
LANCASTER — Lancaster City Council voted down a proposal to put fluoride in city drinking water Monday night, while supporters said they planned to put it on the November election ballot. The vote on the issue came after a two-hour hearing in a packed meeting room where more than two dozen supporters came and just […]
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Fluoride debate back before council
Lancaster — Lancaster City Council tonight will take up the issue of whether or not the city should put fluoride in the city’s drinking water. A hearing is set for the regular council meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the Education Service Center, 111 S. Broad St. Few issues have raised as much controversy in […]
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Fluoridation idea coming back to Lancaster
LANCASTER — In 1983, Mayor Ken Mace vetoed legislation that would have put fluoride in Lancaster’s drinking water. On Monday night, that legislation will be back. Two pieces of legislation will be introduced to City Council that would add fluoride to the city’s drinking water to a level of 1 milligram per liter. Fluoride is […]
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Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger
Concerns about polluted drinking water began to emerge for more than 12,000 Washington County residents when a manufacturing chemical called C8 was revealed in some area public water systems in January 2002. But local water systems had been secretly tested by officials at DuPont’s Washington, W.Va., Works plant, the source of the chemical, decades earlier. […]
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Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger
Concerns about polluted drinking water began to emerge for more than 12,000 Washington County residents when a manufacturing chemical called C8 was revealed in some area public water systems in January 2002. But local water systems had been secretly tested by officials at DuPont’s Washington, W.Va., Works plant, the source of the chemical, decades earlier. […]
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West Virginia Ruling. Judge: DuPont Chemical is Toxic
A West Virginia judge has found that a chemical used to make Teflon is toxic and has punished DuPont for destroying documents as it defends itself in a class-action lawsuit involving the chemical. The lawsuit was filed in August 2001 on behalf of as many as 50,000 people who live near a DuPont plant along […]
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C8 Study ‘Tainted,’ Group Says Governor Urged to Appoint an Independent Panel
A national environmental research group on Wednesday urged Gov. Bob Wise to appoint an independent team to investigate chemical pollution from the DuPont Co. plant in Wood County. The Environmental Working Group said that a panel that previously reviewed the chemical C8 was tainted because of its ties to DuPont and the chemical industry in […]
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Chemical Concerns Persist. Residents Could Have More C8 in Blood than Workers, a DuPont Model Indicates
Ohioans living near a plant where DuPont makes Teflon might have levels of the chemical C8 in their blood that are higher than the average level found in plant workers, according to a model developed by company scientists. Estimates based on DuPont’s model also suggest that the concentration of C8 in the blood of plant […]
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INTERNAL WARNINGS: Industry memos show DUPONT knew for decades that a chemical used to make Teflon is polluting workers and neighbors
LITTLE HOCKING, Ohio — Kenny Taggart always volunteered for blood drives at the DuPont plant across the Ohio River, where he spent most of his adult life mixing chemicals used to make Teflon anti-stick coatings. When Taggart stopped by the plant’s medical office in the early 1980s to offer another pint, the nurse shook her […]
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Cincinnati’s dental crisis
They begin gathering shortly before 7 a.m. outside of Cincinnati’s six public health clinics. Mothers with crying children. Teenagers unable to eat. Adults robbed of sleep. With throbbing toothaches, untreated cavities and painful abscesses, they stand in line to be seen by a city dentist who won’t arrive for another hour. Each weekday, as many […]
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