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Richmond Vows to Return to ‘Full Fluoride’ Levels.
Richmond officials ordered that the fluoride level in the town’s drinking water immediately be raised to recommended levels on Monday, two weeks after the public revelation that its water superintendent cut the level in half nearly four years ago without telling anyone. The unanimous decision by the town’s five-member Water and Sewer Commission followed an […]
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Richmond residents ‘gobsmacked’ after town employee lowers fluoride levels with no oversight.
Residents are concerned a town employee arbitrarily lowered the fluoride level in Richmond’s drinking water below recommended standards based on his personal beliefs. Town Manager Josh Arneson said he was notified by state officials in June that the town’s fluoride levels have been near 0.3 milligrams per liter for the past three years — less […]
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Letter: Fluoridation
Our experience as a society beset with problems reveals a sad truth: When numbers of people suffer injury, the less-advantaged suffer disproportionately. This is injustice. My specific concern is fluoridation of public water supplies, a practice that science, ethics and common sense increasingly discredits. Fluoridation is known to have negative health impacts across a wide […]
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Judge approves $34M settlement over PFOA contamination
A federal judge has given final approval to a $34 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit against a plastics company over toxic chemical contamination of soil and groundwater in a southern Vermont community. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corporation will pay $26.2 million into a fund to compensate Bennington area property owners for alleged damages and $6 […]
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Residents, attorneys react to PFOA suit settlement
Exhaust from the stacks of the former ChemFab Corp. plant in North Bennington were identified by state environmental officials as the source of PFOA contamination of hundreds of wells in the surrounding area. BENNINGTON — A $34.15 million settlement agreement won final court approval Monday, ending a class-action suit filed in 2016 over widespread chemical […]
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Crowther: Water supply fluoridation
The Rutland City Aldermanic Public Works Committee is preparing to re-examine the practice of fluoridation of the water supply. I made the request for this fresh look at the Nov. 1 aldermen’s meeting, and the request was supported by 11 local and area residents and approved unanimously by the board. Here are seven reasons justifying […]
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Crowther: Rutland Aldermen discuss city fluoridation
Here is a recap of the Nov. 1 Rutland aldermanic meeting, as it pertains to my request that the board take a fresh look at fluoridation of the city water supply. I understand that the Herald can’t cover everything, but I believe this issue is important, as indicated by a significant turnout of people. All […]
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Nasty stuff. Letter by Annette Smith, exec. dir., Vermonters for a Clean Environment Inc.
Some readers may be tired of reading Jack Crowther’s information about fluoride, but Mr. Crowther is absolutely correct about the toxicity of the fluoride used in Rutland’s water supply. Another Rutland resident got the label from the product that is put into the Rutland water supply. It comes from a phosphate plant in Florida, and […]
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Vermont: Chronic Disease Program Specialist: Fluoride Program Coordinator
Chronic Disease Program Specialist: Fluoride Program Coordinator – Limited Service State of Vermont – Burlington, VT Description Overview: The Vermont Department of Health is recruiting for a Fluoride Program Coordinator/Chronic Disease Specialist in the Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention Division’s Office of Oral Health. This position is responsible for providing support to the Oral […]
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Crowther: CDC focus
Many of us are celebrating the fact “science-based” is no longer a banned phrase in our new national administration. Not surprisingly, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Rochelle Walensky, has an impressive background in her science-based profession. She served previously as the chief of the Division of Infectious […]
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