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Fluoride bill draws spirited testimony
CONCORD — A bill before the state House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee to establish a study committee to reevaluate the benefits and risks of fluoridated water drew spirited testimony yesterday, most of it opposing fluoridation. But the bulk of testimony was in favor of the idea of forming a study committee that […]
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Bennington Dental Health Committee Recommends No Fluoridation
BENNINGTON — The Committee on Community Dental Health does not recommend fluoridation of the Bennington water system, it said in a recently released report. The one-page document includes the unanimous conclusions of the committee. It is signed by the committee’s chairman Ted Doucette. “We can not recommend fluoridation of the public water system of the […]
United States, Vermont -
Editorial Criticizing Fluoride Action Network
In the Eisenhower era, right-wing crackpots portrayed water fluoridation as a sinister communist conspiracy. Today, fluoridation phobia has found a new political home among a vocal segment of environmentalists. When environmental activists formed a group calling itself the Fluoride Action Network in May 2000, they quickly stooped to characterizing fluoridation as “medication without consent,” a […]
United States, Nebraska -
Harmed to the Teeth?
In Oregon, we don’t like sales taxes or self-serve gas, and we don’t like the government messing with our drinking water. The great fluoride fight of 2001 proved that sentiment once again, when legislators considered a bill to require all cities to fluoridate. The pro-fluoride side got nowhere in Salem and now finds itself on […]
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Athens fights fluoride plan
ATHENS, Ohio — Think the controversy about adding fluoride to tap water is as dated as the Cold War? Think again. A plan to fluoridate the municipal water supply in Athens early next year has stirred public debate in this college town about 65 miles southeast of Columbus. Opponents have confronted the City Council with […]
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Piney Point: Phosphate Discharge to Resume
ST. PETERSBURG – Sometime between Christmas and New Year’s, the flow of waste from an abandoned Manatee County phosphate plant into a shallow harbor off Tampa Bay will resume. Ten million gallons of partially treated waste water were discharged last month before alarmed Bay watchers persuaded the state to suspend the operation. This time, the […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Phosphate Plant to Dump Excess Wastewater
ST. PETERSBURG – Emergency releases of wastewater from the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant into Bishop Harbor likely will resume soon after Christmas, officials said Thursday. The discharges will come after officials add an extra layer of water treatment to safeguard sensitive ecosystems, and likely will continue indefinitely while they seek other ways to safely […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry -
Lawsuit Challenges Escondido Fluoridation Plan
VISTA —- A group of 10 people who live or work in Escondido are seeking a court order barring the city from fluoridating its water supply. A class-action lawsuit originally filed in September and updated last week alleges that the city’s decision to add fluoride to drinking water violates residents’ equal-protection and due-process rights under […]
United States, California -
Chesapeake water customers get added fluoride
CHESAPEAKE — A broken well in Western Branch is forcing the city to deliver water with higher-than-normal levels of fluoride to some residents. The fluoride-rich water being pumped to some Bowers Hill and Deep Creek neighborhoods won’t pose a health threat, city officials said. But long-term exposure could potentially cause tooth discoloration in children, said […]
United States, Virginia -
Groups seek solution for wastewater woes
PINEY POINT – The fate of millions of gallons of toxic wastewater at the abandoned Piney Point phosphate plant may come into focus Thursday, when area leaders gather for talks in St. Petersburg. Officials and activists will try to hammer out a plan for disposing of the highly acidic water – millions of gallons of […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry