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Water fluoridation plan on ballots in York County
Seven communities in York County will vote Nov. 5 on a controversial proposal to fluoridate their water. The communities are Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, Wells, Arundel, Ogunquit, the coastal section of Biddeford and the Cape Neddick portion of York. A group of dentists in southern Maine is urging voters to approve fluoridation. The American Dental Association says […]
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Redding voters face huge maze of facts
In the debate around water fluoridation, partisans use science the way gladiators wield broadswords. Fluoridation supporters can mobilize a mountain of studies dating from the 1940s calling water fluoridation the safest, surest and least-expensive way to fight tooth decay. Fluoride foes challenge those studies. Most are outdated, they say. And they leave too many questions […]
United States, California -
Fluoride: Healthy or hazardous?
Redding voters Nov. 5 will decide Measure A, a ballot initiative having something to do with the city’s water supply. That’s about the only hard fact surrounding the measure. Everything else depends on whether you believe water fluoridation is an equal-opportunity hedge against tooth decay or a conspiracy to turn humans into little industrial waste […]
United States, California -
Utility districts file suit to halt fluoridation
Five Pierce County utility districts announced Friday they had sued to keep from having to put fluoride in public drinking water. After hearing comments on the contentious issue, the Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health on Oct. 2 unanimously voted to require utilities serving more than 5,000 people to fluoridate their water by Jan. 1, 2004, […]
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Fluoridation details debated in Redding
Fluoridation would hike lead and arsenic in Redding’s water — but hardly enough to violate strict state health and safety standards. If the city went ahead with fluoridation, grants would pay for the equipment — but not the cost to run and replace it over the coming decade. And if Redding ignores a state law […]
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Veto override fails in Erie
The veto stands. After nearly two hours of public comment, Erie City Council narrowly failed to override Mayor Rick Filippi’s veto of the Safe Drinking Water Act, an ordinance that would have stopped any chemical, including fluoride, from being added to the city’s water supply. (NOTE from FAN: It is incorrect to say that the […]
United States, Pennsylvania -
Activists pressing to stop fluoride in Plainville
Six months after voters chose fluoride-free water, residents still have a 50 percent chance of getting fluoridated water every time they turn on a tap. About half of the town’s water goes through a treatment facility that Plainville shares with neighboring North Attleborough, which adds fluoride to its water. The two towns received four options […]
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Beaverton called to decide on fluoridation
Long before Stand for Children began promoting fluoridation in Beaverton, UNICEF posted its Web site report seriously challenging traditional thinking on fluoride‘s safety and effectiveness in reducing tooth decay (www.unicef.org/programme/wes/info/fluor.htm). Most of Europe — only 2 percent fluoridated, with decay rates comparable to or better than ours — ended the practice of adding fluoride to […]
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EPA fines Cabot $167,000 for faulty reports
BOYERTOWN — Cabot Corp. is facing more than $167,000 in penalties from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating hazardous chemical reporting requirements. Officials at the Boston-based company’s Cabot Performance Materials Plant at 144 Holly Road failed to immediately notify emergency response agencies about two hazardous chemical leaks in 2000, according to an EPA press […]
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Artesia man suffers burns at Navajo Refining
ARTESIA – An accident at Navajo Refining on Monday morning left one man injured as several agencies responded to an acid release. Shortly before 9 a.m., a call went out for assistance to the refinery. Crews later found a leak, which was the result of a defective valve in a -inch bleeder line connected to […]
United States, New Mexico Oil Refineries