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The Top Ten Greenhouse Gases
1. Water Vapor Water? Water?! Water! Yes, according to the IPCC, steam accounts for 36-70 percent of the greenhouse effect. Fog, haze and clouds are all water vapor, and steam is the other main byproduct of the combustion of fossil fuels. Worse still, warming causes a positive feedback loop as higher temperatures result in more […]
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Crescent City: Council stands by fluoride
If fluoride is to come out of Crescent City’s water supply, it will have to be done through a grassroots campaign. The Crescent City Council reiterated its stance Monday that it will not put a measure on a future ballot to take fluoride out of its water, and instead will force citizens to gather enough […]
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New facility in Omaha, Neb., to produce fluorine-18 (F-18)
Title of press release: Cardinal Health Extends Radiopharmaceutical Manufacturing Network to Nebraska New Omaha facility to help advance the early diagnosis and treatment of disease DUBLIN, Ohio, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Cardinal Health, a global provider of products and services that improve the safety and productivity of health care, today announced that it has opened […]
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SENATE BILL NO. 311: Mandatory fluoridation for certain communities
SENATE BILL NO. 311–SENATORS MATHEWS, LEE, HORSFORD; AND TOWNSEND MARCH 16, 2009 ____________ JOINT SPONSORS: ASSEMBLYMEN ANDERSON AND SMITH ____________ Referred to Committee on Natural Resources SUMMARY—Requires the fluoridation of water provided by certain public water systems and water authorities in certain counties. (BDR 40-924) FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: May have Fiscal Impact. […]
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Muktsar: Here, drinking water is elixir of death
Muktsar residents committing slow suicide by drinking 7-foot-deep water Everyday, Kotkapura Road residents, Vivek Sharma and his wife Neetu, get a 10-litre can filled from the Water Works office campus, after it closes. They don’t get enough potable water from the regular supply of the Water Works department, and can’t risk their lives by drinking […]
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No date set for Coffs water fluoridation
New South Wales Health says fluoride will soon be added to Coffs Harbour’s water supply to help combat tooth decay, but it will not say when. The project manager of Teeth for Health, John Irving, says there is overwhelming evidence to support fluoride’s safety and effectiveness. He says while it is already found in toothpaste […]
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3M’s man at the EPA?
We published a story this morning in the Sunday Gazette-Mail about Robert M. Sussman, who was hired last month by Obama EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to be one of her top advisers. Lawyers who represent folks in at least three states who are drinking water contaminated by C8 and similar chemicals are concerned about Sussman, […]
Perfluorinated chemicals -
EPA official might have conflict over C8
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — When President Obama named Lisa Jackson to be his Environmental Protection Agency administrator, advocates for tougher regulation of the toxic chemical C8 were optimistic. Read more in the Sustained Outrage blog. As New Jersey’s top environmental regulator, Jackson had set the toughest C8 guideline in the country – a drinking water standard […]
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Editorial: Improving dental health requires responsibility, outreach
Two-thirds of children in West Virginia have cavities by age 8. That is far, far too many. West Virginians drink a lot of sugary soft drinks. They use a lot of tobacco products. Both are bad for their teeth. Small children, too, suffer from “Mountain Dew mouth” because their parents put soft drinks and sugary […]
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Nalgonda faces acute water scarcity
NALGONDA: If there is any region in the State that has been suffering from the same set of problems over the decades with no government worth its salt ever attempting to solve the woes, then Nalgonda perhaps fits the bill. Water scarcity and fluorosis have become perennial to this region. Except the media, which may […]
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