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Healdsburg. Editorial: The burden on anti-fluoride folks in fall election
Not satisfied with their efforts to kill a plan for addressing Sonoma County’s horrendous dental problem among children, the anti-fluoridation folks have turned their sights on Healdsburg, hoping to pull the plug on a program that has existed there for 62 years. But their plan is the same. Armed with voodoo science and allegations about […]
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Healdsburg council calls for vote on fluoride issue
The decision on whether Healdsburg should end its more than 60-year practice of adding fluoride to the water supply will go to the voters in November. The Healdsburg City Council voted unanimously to place the controversial measure on the Nov. 4 ballot. If approved, it would end the only government fluoridation program in Sonoma County. […]
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Healdsburg likely to revisit fluoridation
Generations of Healdsburg residents have grown up with fluoride in their water. But that could change, now that a group of activists has gathered sufficient signatures to put a measure on the ballot to try to get the city to stop fluoridating. Healdsburg, which adds the compound to its water supply to fight tooth decay, […]
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San Diego: Are we fluoridated? Or not? Dentist sues city for not releasing documents
On May 20, David Kennedy, a local dentist who was turned away after requesting documents pertaining to the addition of fluoride compounds in the city’s water supply, filed what is the latest legal complaint against the city for violating state records acts. According to the complaint, the city “systematically failed to reply within ten days […]
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Clean Water California organizes a March and Rally March 22 to urge water districts to warn parents of fluoride risk
Is Bay Area Water Safe for Bottle-Fed Babies? The Centers for Disease Control and the American Dental Association agree that babies fed formula made with tap water are at risk of ingesting too much fluoride. Yet most Bay Area water districts fail to warn parents of the risk. On Saturday, March 22, concerned citizens will […]
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Bay seals’ contamination with chemical puzzling
There’s a mystery afoot in San Francisco Bay, where harbor seals are contaminated with high levels of a man-made chemical that was pulled from production 12 years ago, and scientists can’t figure out why or what the effects are. Perfluorooctanesulfonic acid – once the primary ingredient in Scotchgard – has remained elevated in harbor seals even […]
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Fluoride opponents target Healdsburg water
For more than 60 years, fluoride has been added to Healdsburg’s water to fight tooth decay. But that could end if opponents of fluoridated drinking water convince a majority of voters to stop the practice. Activists recently filed a notice of intent to begin circulating petitions to put the issue on the ballot. Healdsburg is […]
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Legislature may consider moratorium on fracking
A moratorium on all forms of extreme well stimulation, including hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” and acidization until a comprehensive, independent and multi-agency review exploring the economic, environmental and public health impacts is complete is being proposed in the California Legislature. State Sens. Holly Mitchell, D-Los Angeles, and Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, are the sponsors of […]
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Santa Clara Valley Water District: Fluoride project continues without public information
The public needs to be informed about the Santa Clara Valley Water District project to fluoridate drinking water. There are many reasons people who will be affected need to know more about this project. In November, 2011, the Water District Board of Directors approved a policy to “Provide fluoridated drinking water at the district’s three […]
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EDC Says Venoco “Acidizing” Offshore
The Carpinteria-based oil company Venoco has been “acidizing” its offshore wells from Platform Holly to extract more resources in recent years, and Santa Barbara’s Environmental Defense Center is concerned that the process — in which hydrochloric and/or hydrofluoric acid gets pumped into the earth to dissolve rocks and free up oil — is being allowed […]
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