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Madison water utility postpones change to fluoridation policy; board to await federal study of health impacts
The Madison Water Utility will continue adding fluoride to the city’s drinking water — for now. The utility board voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone a review of the practice that was started in 1948 as a way to prevent tooth decay until the completion of a U.S. Health and Human Services review. The board will […]
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Madison Water Utility to review fluoridation policy; Rummel questions need, risks
The Madison Water Utility is reviewing a decades-old practice of adding fluoride to city water at the request of a Madison councilwoman who worries the anti-cavity measure may affect children’s intelligence. The utility’s board is scheduled to discuss the fluoridation policy, established in 2009, at its meeting Tuesday. The board last reviewed the policy in […]
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Effort to remove fluoride from Green Bay’s drinking water resurfaces
Green Bay’s Protection and Policy committee will hold a special meeting on October 8 to discuss the fluoride issue. Click here to see TV report GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – There’s a renewed effort in Green Bay to eliminate fluoride in the drinking water. Action 2 News first reported in 2017, the city took up […]
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Rock Springs discontinues using fluoride in drinking water
Rock Springs has discontinued using fluoride in its water system. According to the meeting minutes from the April 20 utility board meeting and a May newsletter on the village’s website, Rock Springs decided to remove the chemical from its water after the pump to dispense the chemical into the water was not working properly. Village […]
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Wisconsin faces wave of anti-fluoridation efforts
ADA, Wisconsin Dental Association collaborating with other organizations to turn the tide The ADA and the Wisconsin Dental Association are partnering up with other fluoridated water proponents to address February anti-fluoridation movements in three Wisconsin municipalities: Lake Delton, Berlin and Hayward. The state association has formed a fluoride response team that monitors situations like those […]
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Superior refinery settlement would offset explosion, fire emissions
The April 2018 explosion and fire released an estimated 165 tons of emissions. An enormous plume of smoke from a second fire at the Husky Energy refinery in Superior billows to the south April 27, 2018. Residents within 10 miles in the direction of the smoke were evacuated. (File / News Tribune) Husky […]
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Lake Delton village board will proceed with fluoride removal despite protests from local dentist
The debate over fluoride in Lake Delton’s water supply continued, as an area dentist spoke at the Feb. 24 Lake Delton village board meeting on behalf of continuing fluoridation. Dr. David Clemens, longtime dentist at Dells Dental, appeared before the board to ask trustees to reverse their Feb. 10 decision to stop fluoridating the Lake […]
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Lake Delton eliminates fluoride from drinking water prompting criticism from local dentists
Note from Fluoride Action Network, The unfortunate statements on fluoride from a dentist quoted in the article below, “It does not cause brain cancer. It does not cause bone cancer,” Clemens said. “It doesn’t cause lower I.Q.” are not correct. There are over 60 published studies that report an association of fluoride exposure with lowered […]
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Lake Delton removes fluoride from village drinking water
Note from Fluoride Action Network, Lake Delton is in Sauk County and has a population of approximately 3,000 (reference). The Lake Delton village board officially voted to suspend fluoridation of the village’s drinking water at its meeting Monday, preempting an April circuit court suit that could end the practice nationwide. Brenda Staudenmaier, one of the […]
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Wisconsin refinery that was site of explosion plans rebuild
SUPERIOR, Wis. — Husky Energy says it’s been given approval to rebuild its oil refinery in Superior, Wisconsin after an explosion and a series of fires last year injured 36 people and required much of the city to evacuate. Husky, which does business as Superior Refining Company in Wisconsin, said it will start the $400 […]
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