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Fluoridation Expose’ Garners Prestigious Award
PRNewswire/ — In the 1940’s, America was sold fluoridation with the false equivalency that pollutants (hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride), when added to public water supplies, acts similarly as naturally fluoridated water to safely reduce tooth decay – but without such evidence, reports Frank Zelko, PhD, Associate Professor, Environmental History, University of Hawaii, in History […]
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NY receiving comments on weak regulations for PFOA-PFOS up to March 9.
Act Now to Protect NY’s Tap Water From Dangerous Chemicals New York State seems reluctant to ban chemicals linked to serious health problems, including cancer. The Department of Health is ready pass regulations that allow chemical concentration levels in drinking water five times higher than scientists deem safe. Even after these regulations—which would still be […]
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Prominent Harvard Researcher Certain Fluoride is Unsafe for Children’s Developing Brains, NYSCOF
NEW YORK, March 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — “There is little doubt that developmental neurotoxicity is a serious risk associated with elevated fluoride exposure, whether due to community water fluoridation, natural fluoride release from soil minerals, or tea consumption, especially when the exposure occurs during early [brain] development,” writes Harvard Professor and researcher Phillipe Grandjean, MD, in a […]
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Cortland County health director to retire
S.N. Briere/staff reporter Cortland County Public Health Director Catherine Feuerherm, right, works with her secretary Cheryl Mrozowski on a presentation Feuerherm will give to the Legislature Health and Human services Committee in March. Feuerherm, who has been the director for 11 years, will retire in March. Two months after Catherine Feuerherm took over as Cortland […]
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Potsdam fluoride system bid goes over maximum, project on hold for now
POTSDAM — The installation of a new fluoride system for municipal water to replace the old failing system is on hold for the time being because the only bid received for the project was higher than the village had prepared for. Options now are “working with the bidder to discuss the price” with the hope […]
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Activists file lawsuit over Cohoes Norlite plant burning, storing PFOA for Defense Department
COHOES — Environmental groups are suing to stop the burning of the highly toxic chemical compounds PFOA and PFOS at the Norlite incineration plant in Cohoes. The chemicals have been burned at the plant under a 2019 U.S. Department of Defense contract to incinerate firefighting foam containing PFOA and PFOS that have been stored at […]
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City of Newburgh to Transition Water Supply
The City of Newburgh will be transitioning its source of drinking water from Brown’s Pond to the Catskill Aqueduct on January 27, 2020. The process will take approximately two to three days for the existing drinking water in the City’s water mains and water storage tanks to be consumed and fully replaced with filtered water […]
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Fluoridation: A 75-year-old Blunder
Seventy-five years ago, dentists convinced government officials to experiment on every Grand Rapids, Michigan, resident without individual informed-consent to prove that (not if) dosing the municipal water supply with untested sodium-fluoride chemicals would decay-proof children’s developing teeth. Planned to last 15 years, the 1945 study ended prematurely after 6 ½ years. Teeth of most children […]
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City of Newburgh Awarded $3 Million in Water Infrastructure Grants
NEWBURGH, NY – The City of Newburgh is pleased to announce the award of more than $3 million for improvements to the City’s drinking water infrastructure. The funding was made possible through the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act and the Intermunicipal Water Infrastructure Grant Program, and will be used to make state-of-the-art updates to the City’s […]
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Fluoridation for Yorktown, Somers and the Northern Westchester Joint Water Works.
Excerpt from a public hearing last week on Yorktown’s 2020 town budget: During the hearing, former Supervisor Susan Siegel and Yorktown resident and dentist, Dr. Carl H. Tegtmeier, chairman of the Dental Health Planning & Hospital Dentistry Committee, implored the town board to add $157,000 to the budget to complete a fluoridation project. Yorktown and […]
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