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Fort Collins Water Board: “Many Concerns” about Fluoridation
Reporting of the Fort Collins Water Board’s vote to recommend doing away with fluoride in the city’s water supply (April 25) may have left the impression that some of us were recommending this to save money. The dollar cost to continue fluoridation was a very minor concern compared with a number of other considerations: While […]
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Piney Point: An ecological powder keg
The defunct Piney Point fertilizer plant is a disaster in the making. The 700 million gallons of acidic water in the gypsum storage stack threatens to break through the walls and spill into Tampa Bay. Even if the square mound’s walls of fine, white, packed gypsum hold, rains threaten to push the water up and […]
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Commentary on Fort Collins Fluoride Issue
When the Water Board recommended the city stop fluoridating the water, the city manager denigrated them and called for public input. However, public input opposed fluoridation. Only the dental industry spoke in favor of fluoridating with an industrial waste from Cargill pollution scrubbers. More than 60 health-care providers signed a petition to stop fluoridation because […]
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Paducah plant workers receive medical testing
PADUCAH, Ky. — James “Smoothy” Wilkerson is thankful for his $150,000 share of the more than $110 million paid to compensate sick Paducah nuclear workers. He’s even happier that a tiny tumor in his right lung was detected early by a scanner that sees lung images as thin as paper. Wilkerson, 72, of South Fulton, […]
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Fort Collins council poised to decide fate of city water
Fluoride. Merely utter the word in Fort Collins these days and you might get an earful. Residents of the city seem staunchly divided on whether to continue adding the oft-championed cavity-fighter to drinking water. It is an issue that many have sunk their proverbial teeth into. And it is drawing near a possible end. The […]
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Children Need Dentists – NOT Fluoridation, Study Shows
Despite living without fluoridated water, rural children’s cavity rates equal those of urban children, who are more likely to drink fluoridated water, according to a large national government study of over 24,000 U.S. children, ages 2- to 17-year-old.(1) Poor children, whether from rural or urban areas, are more likely to have cavities and least likely […]
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Study to Address Cancer, Bone Problems, & Other Health Concerns Near Coronet Phosphate
PLANT CITY – Carl Crowell isn’t sure what caused his prostate cancer, and he can’t say why many of his neighbors have been stricken with other forms of the disease. Public health agencies don’t know either. But they are trying to determine whether pollution from a phosphate plant and old landfills could be linked to […]
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Mt. Pleasant citizens petition for clean water
MT. PLEASANT – After an unsuccessful attempt to pass an ordinance dealing with water quality in 1997, another petition was submitted Tuesday afternoon. “First, we have to count the signatures, to make sure that they have at least 500,” said Robert Flynn, city clerk. “Then we have to check them over and make sure that […]
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Piney Point: Bending the rules at Piney Point, a $140-million mess.
The earthen embankment containing the Piney Point waste has suffered from structural problems requiring patching with gravel. (2003, Times Archive) [ CERRI, LARA | St. Petersburg Times ] The warning signs were clear: The Piney Point fertilizer plant was headed for disaster. State regulators knew in 1995 that the owner, Mulberry Corp., was struggling. If […]
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Water fights
For eons now, liberals have teased conservatives about one thing (well, many things, but I’m thinking of one in particular): the fluoridation of water. “Oh, you work at NATIONAL REVIEW? What do you do, write editorials denouncing the fluoridation of the water supply?” Ha, ha, ha. (Actually, we spend our time advocating separate lunch counters […]
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