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Midland continues to contain fluoride above the acceptable levels
A recently released report on Midland’s water quality during 2010 shows it continues to contain fluoride above the acceptable levels. Those levels apply only to water taken directly from the Paul Davis Well Field pipeline and not to water that’s provided from the city’s water plant, said Danny Presley, engineering technician at the Utilities Department. […]
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Austin: Fluoride free Austin takes action against forced water fluoridation
There has been considerable controversy among health experts regarding the fluoridation of municipal water supplies, enough to arouse public concerns with activist groups working to have it abolished. Petitioning the FDA and USDA and Congress has just not worked. Locally, Hawaii avoided water fluoridation and Fairbanks Alaska recently stopped decades of forced fluoridation. Though the […]
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Austin: City Council Is prescribing medicine? Austin experts testify to the dangers of the forced medication of artificial water fluoridation
Fluoride History: Sixty years ago the U.S. Center for Disease Control proposed that fluoride be added to drinking water to prevent cavities. In December 2009, the Austin Environmental Board recommended that city council evaluate the costs and benefits of water fluoridation. In July 2010, Austin Health and Human Services warned mothers not to give fluoridated […]
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Marathon leak prompts brief shelter-in-place order
TEXAS CITY — The east side of the city was under a shelter-in-place order because of a leak of butane that contains small amounts of hydrofluoric acid at Marathon’s Texas City refinery, emergency management officials confirmed. The shelter-in-place order was lifted at 6 p.m. about an hour after it was issued. The isolated order covered […]
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Austin: Fluoride fighters protest Austin water additive
A meeting of the Austin city council’s Public Health and Human Services Committee drew a hefty crowd to City Hall Tuesday afternoon, many waving mock-ups of vintage cigarette advertisements for brands “recommended” by doctors and dentists. The committee met in the council chambers where the audience was nearly full thanks to a call to arms […]
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Dallas: New Anti-Fluoridation Group Warns About Dallas’s “Poisoned” Taps
Alan Smith says he can’t get any clean water to drink because his tap’s poisoned — and that’s the same old tap water everyone else in Dallas is drinking. Every drop, of course, is treated with fluoride to reduce cavities — but each time Smith pours a cup of water, he doesn’t see cavity control. […]
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$303,294 Fine for Citgo related to 2009 fire
CORPUS CHRISTI – The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has handed down more than 303-thousand dollars against Citgo Refining in Nueces County for a fire in July of 2009. The TCEQ investigation found Citgo improperly handled the release of chemicals that sparked a flash fire that injured one worker. The company was also cited for […]
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Area water’s fluoride level is too high
Dr. John Johnson, a Lubbock pediatric dentist, sees cases of fluorosis all the time. Dr. Elizabeth Dannenberg, another Lubbock dentist, sees it too: splotchy, discolored teeth. In rare, severe cases, they even become brittle and chalky. The cause is too much fluoride, and it comes from drinking water. “There’s a lot of fluorosis in West […]
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San Antonio: BexarMet needs more than PR
The Bexar Metropolitan Water District board of directors took one sound and one troubling action last week. Board members voted to continue fluoridating water. The vote reversed a previous decision and eliminates the potential for a costly and futile fight with the city of San Antonio. In August, the BexarMet board voted to stop adding […]
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San Antonio: Reversal of fluoride: BexarMet retracts decision
The Bexar Metropolitan Water District (BexarMet) has reversed a controversial decision it made only a few months ago. BexarMet board members have voted to put fluoride back in the water. In October, BexarMet ended its contract with its fluoride provider. The move came under fire for going against a city ordinance requiring water providers to […]
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