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Mohawks seek deer jaws to help with fluoride monitoring
HOGANSBURG – The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s environmental division is trying to collect 75 lower jaws from deer killed by hunters on the reservation. They need the jaws to monitor the amount of fluoride in deer and to see if it has reached levels that forced the slaughtering of cattle on the reservation in the […]
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Rockland: Fluoride free for 60 years
When most New Yorkers drink water from their faucets, they take part in a public health initiative that is marking its 60th anniversary this year. Fluoride, a naturally occurring element, is added in small amounts to 73 percent of the drinking water in New York state, including 90 percent of public water in Westchester. Nationwide, […]
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Alcoa will pay $40,000 for emitting too much fluoride
MASSENA – Alcoa announced Thursday that it will pay the state Department of Environmental Conservation $40,000 for an air-quality violation recorded earlier this year. The Massena Operations East Plant registered a reading in April of 2.66 pounds of fluoride per ton of aluminum produced, which exceeds the state minimum fluoride emission of 2.4 pounds per […]
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Homer council votes to stop fluoridation
When it comes to fluoride in drinking water, Homer village trustees say keep it out. Right now, the village adds one part fluoride per million gallons of water to the drinking supply. Tuesday night, the board voted 3 to 2 to stop doing that. “It seems like in every report that we have, it seems […]
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Fluoride controversy in Homer
Roy Crandall refuses to drink water with fluoride in it. “I said at one time anyone that bought bottled water was crazy because the Homer water was good, but then I started reading about fluoride and decided I didn’t want any part of the fluoride,” he said. The Homer trustee wants the village to stop […]
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Albany threatened again with fluoridation plan
Dr. Joseph Hart’s bookshelf has a section dedicated to fluoride. Since dental school in the late 1960s, the town of Bethlehem dentist has saved everything from comic strips on fluoridation to the letters he’s sent off to officials in Albany and his own town asking them to please add fluoride to the public water supply. […]
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Report of toxic spill at Phillips plant not needed
Managers at the East Fish-kill Phillips Semiconductors plant did not have to report the release of a fluoride chemical last month, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation. That’s because the company said only a “baseball-size clump” of the chemical ammonium fluorosilicate had been released into the air. The DEC does not require companies to […]
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Powdery chemical covers cars in East Fishkill
HOPEWELL JUNCTION — A baseball-sized clump of a potentially dangerous chemical was released last month at a local manufacturing plant, worrying employees whose cars were covered by the chemical. The “spill” happened on July 7 at the East Fishkill IBM and Philips Semiconductor campus, according to internal documents from IBM and Philips. About 80 cars […]
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Mohawk official moves group with fluoride gas horror tale
HOGANSBURG – On Monday morning, F. Henry Lickers amazed and even brought to tears his audience of scientists and activists in a longhouse of the Mohawk people. For three hours, the director of the Department of Environment for the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne described a dark chapter in his people’s history that began in the […]
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Experts at meeting say fluoride is detrimental to health
CANTON – In the only town in the north country to ban fluoride from its drinking water, a handful of scientists gathered and claimed the cavity-fighting substance negatively affects behavior and lowers intelligence. On Saturday at the St. Lawrence University campus, the second day of the First Citizens Conference on Fluoride, Phyllis J. Mullenix, who […]
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