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Yorktown. Letter: Don’t Force Fluoride on Me
The debate about adding a toxic substance, fluoride, to our drinking water has its pros and cons. Yorktown has been without water fluoridation for a long time now. I have not heard of any problems with an increase of cavities, have you? If there are people who want fluoride treatment for their teeth, there are […]
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Dr. Arthur Bushel “launched one of the first campaigns to prevent cavities by fluoridating the New York City water supply”
The title of the article: Dr. Arthur Bushel, dental health pioneer, dies Dr. Arthur Bushel, a retired dentist who taught at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and was an expert on fluoridation, died of complications of normal pressure hydrocephalus Nov. 21 at the North Oaks Retirement Community. He was 99. Born in […]
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Yorktown’s Over-Budget Fluoride Project Runs into More Problems
YORKTOWN, N.Y. – Nearly eight years ago, the Town Board voted to keep fluoride in its drinking water. The town later received a $901,050 grant from the state to build a town-operated fluoride system—a place to dose its water with the naturally occurring mineral, which is said to protect and strengthen tooth enamel, thereby reducing […]
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NY WIC webinar to discuss fluoridation in context of infant oral health.
5.) Teeth for Two: An Overview of Perinatal and Infant Oral Health December 17th, 2020 9:30AM -11:30AM Click here to register Increases in interprofessional training and state and federal efforts have led to a greater emphasis on perinatal and infant oral health education and practice. WIC programs play a critical role in educating and encouraging participants to […]
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DOD is spending millions, getting rid of toxic foam by burning it near where people live
Best to read this good article, with video clips, online at https://wjla.com/news/spotlight-on-america/dod-is-spending-millions-getting-rid-of-toxic-foam-by-burning-it-near-where-people-live COHOES, N.Y. (SBG) — The military stopped using firefighting foam that contains toxic PFAS chemicals because of documented health risks. To get rid of its massive stockpile, Spotlight on America discovered the Department of Defense is spending millions of taxpayer dollars, burning the […]
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Delta Dental Community Care Foundation Awards More Than $2 Million in Grants to New York Nonprofits
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — The Delta Dental Community Care Foundation has given grants to 19 organizations, totaling more than $2 million, in New York to provide relief amid the COVID-19 pandemic. These unrestricted grants were intended to help the Foundation’s nonprofit partners continue to provide vital services to the most vulnerable members […]
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New Review Finds NYC Watershed Protection Program Successful in Maintaining and Enhancing Water Quality
Note from Fluoride Action Network Approximately 1 billion gallons of drinking water each day are used by residents in New York City and those living in Westchester, Putnam, Orange and Ulster counties. The source of relatively clean water comes from quite a distance and is then fluoridated with toxic waste from the fertilizer industry. There […]
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Olean Common Council adds wellhouse project to list
Olean water wellhouse 37/78 on East Riverside Drive will see almost $400,000 in work as the Olean Common Council approved a contract for the work on Tuesday. OLEAN — City officials added another project to the list to get done this summer, despite COVID-19. The Common Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a $382,850 contract […]
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Destroying Forever Chemicals Ignites N.Y. Town’s ‘Worst Fears’
Firefighters spray foam on burning embers beside homes on Latigo Canyon Road in Malibu, Calif., in 2018. PFAS-laced firefighting foam from multiple states had been sent for destruction to an incinerator in upstate New York, raising concerns about local health and environmental effects. Photographer: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via via Getty Images Incineration ‘unproven’ method of […]
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Toxic PFAS Fallout Found Near Incinerator in Upstate New York
PFAS contamination was found in soil and water near an incinerator in New York state that has been burning firefighting foam for the Department of Defense. Industrial chemicals known as PFAS have contaminated soil and water near an incinerator in upstate New York that has been burning firefighting foam. The facility is run by Norlite, […]
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