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Editorial: Improving dental health requires responsibility, outreach
Two-thirds of children in West Virginia have cavities by age 8. That is far, far too many. West Virginians drink a lot of sugary soft drinks. They use a lot of tobacco products. Both are bad for their teeth. Small children, too, suffer from “Mountain Dew mouth” because their parents put soft drinks and sugary […]
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Factors eat away at area’s dental health
HUNTINGTON — From soda in sippy cups to Mountain Dew before dentist appointments, Huntington dentist Dr. Scott Edmonds has seen a lot in his five years of practice. Three years ago, he made a complete denture set for a 15-year-old boy. “I couldn’t believe it. I was appalled,” he said. Experts say a lack of […]
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The fight for fluoride
This is the final installment in a four-part series focusing on oral health problems in West Virginia. LICK CREEK — Part of Brittany Sammons’ front tooth broke off. She isn’t sure why. A portion off the tooth just snapped off. One day it was there, a perfectly good tooth, the next day a piece of […]
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Some oppose fluoride in water
Some public health advocates are saying, “Don’t drink the water” — if it’s supplemented with fluoride. Once viewed as a Communist conspiracy to brainwash America, fluoridated water has become a hot-button issue again. Anti-fluoridation Internet sites are flooding the Web and voters in some parts of the country have even rejected legislation introducing water fluoridation. […]
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Wood residents oppose DuPont permits
PARKERSBURG — Wood County residents turned out Monday night to object to the latest permits for the landfill where DuPont Co. dumped wastes containing the toxic chemical C8. Under the permits, the state Department of Environmental Protection does not limit the amount of C8 that DuPont can discharge from the landfill into tributaries of the […]
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DuPont’s C8 contamination widespread, EPA says
In June 1984, officials from DuPont Co. put together a list of sampling results from drinking water near the company’s Parkersburg chemical plant. The list, called “Update on C8 in water samples,” was marked “personal and confidential.” A March sample from Washington showed 1.2 parts per billion. A June sample from Lubeck found 1.5 parts […]
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EPA Takes Enforcement Action Against DuPont For Toxic Substances Reporting Violations
EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance (OECA) is taking an administrative action against E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (DuPont) for two violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and one violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). These violations consist of multiple failures to report information to EPA about […]
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W.Va. Supreme Court orders DuPont documents unsealed in C8 suit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A year before it was sued, a DuPont lawyer warned the chemical giant that it could be found liable in a class-action lawsuit alleging a chemical contaminated drinking water, according to company documents unsealed by the West Virginia Supreme Court. The court voted 5-0 Thursday to unseal the internal documents, which include […]
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New study finds cancer rate higher in C8-exposed areas
PARKERSBURG – A recently released study authored by Dr. James Dahlgren, a nationally known toxicologist retained by plaintiffs in a pending Wood County Circuit Court C8 class action lawsuit filed against DuPont Washington Works, states “the overall cancer prevalence rate is higher in the population exposed to C8 when compared to the general population.” Perfluorooctanonic […]
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DuPont’s Teflon Dilemma
Since the early 1900s, the Tennant family had raised cattle over rolling hills in the far western reaches of West Virginia, near the Ohio River. But in the late 1980s, Wilbur Earl Tennant’s herd began to die off-280 Hereford cows in all. The Tennants suspected it had something to do with the black, odorous water […]
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