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Sebastopol votes to oppose county fluoridation plan
The Sebastopol City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to join the city of Cotati in opposing fluoridation of Sonoma County’s drinking water, even if its own water supply would not be directly affected. The 5-0 vote came despite a written, last-minute plea from county Board of Supervisors Chairman David Rabbitt, who asked the council to […]
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Banned Scotchgard chemical still contaminating San Francisco seals
In a shallow arm of the bay, where Pacific tides cause hardly a ripple, hundreds of harbor seals lounge, mate and bear young. With placid expressions on bewhiskered faces and bulky bodies reclining on shorelines, the seals belie a disturbing burden they carry. Living on the edge of a metropolitan hub, these seals are under […]
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Health Trust lays out plan to make people in Santa Clara County healthier
Some 200 people interested in healthy living for infants, adults and the elderly met at the Mexican Heritage Plaza recently to find out The Health Trust’s new initiatives for the next five years. Discussions at the Jan. 16 meeting included a question-and-answer period with five San Jose mayoral candidates, and a speech by Julie Gerberding, […]
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EPA Joins the Fray, Hits Allenco for Violations at L.A. Oil Facility Where Investigators Suffered
It took years of complaints from neighbors that the Allenco Energy Inc. oil facility, south of downtown Los Angeles, was making them sick—respiratory problems, nausea, headaches, nosebleeds and the like—before serious attention was paid to the problem. On Wednesday, two months after investigators for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suffered some of the same […]
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Fluoride – Alzheimers Disease and Copper Pipes
The fluoride debate is boiling in Sonoma County. Those drinking its water should know about some startling fluoride revelations. Recent research has connected “hidden” dots linking fluoride with the most dread of all diseases – Alzheimer’s (AD). But it may not be fluoride directly, but fluoride’s effects on your copper pipes. Copper in your body […]
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Editorial: Fluoride should be decided by Marin water district voters
MARIN MUNICIPAL WATER DISTRICT directors recently got another dose of public opinion. Critics of the district’s longstanding use of fluoride in drinking water want MMWD to stop using the additive. They say it potentially does more harm than good, and people jammed a MMWD meeting room to deliver that message. They also say they have […]
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Tribal Council Votes to Stop Adding Fluoride to Hoopa Water
The Hoopa Valley quietly followed the lead of France, Sweden, Belgium and dozens of other nations from around the world when it stopped putting fluoride into the water supply earlier this year. The new Tribal Council voted unanimously for the change just a few weeks into their terms. Murphy Lott, the senior water treatment operator […]
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Marin Water Activists Double Down on Fluoridation Fight
Clean Water Sonoma-Marin digs in its heels for what looks to be a protracted legal battle with the Marin Municipal Water District over fluoridation. Two weeks after being told to take their fight somewhere else, local anti-fluoridation activists insist they have no intention of backing down from their fight with a local water district. The […]
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Cotati says no to fluoridation
Too many variables prompt council to unanimously vote against county’s plan Cotati became the first city in Sonoma County to voice an opinion on the concept of water fluoridation throughout the county at its City Council meeting on Sept. 12. And after hearing presentations from proponents and opponents of fluoridation as well as a number […]
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Feed Fluoridation: Funding Initiative Allows CA Utilities to Adopt Fluoride Saturator and Feed Systems
A child health funding initiative in California has enabled several California water purveyors to adopt dual-tank fluoride saturator and feed systems that offer safe and precise sodium fluoride addition while reducing maintenance. The initiative is called First 5 California Children and Families Commission – known as First 5 California. Its mission is to optimize children’s […]
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