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Fluoride Backers Push For Davis County Vote
FARMINGTON — The Davis County Board of Health is not about to give up thefight for fluoride. In a letter authorized at a special board meeting Friday, chairwoman Beth Beck asked the Davis County Commission to consider new arguments for putting fluoride on the Nov. 7 ballot. “I’m hopeful,” Beck said. “The commission wants to […]
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Cleanup resumes at Paducah plant
PADUCAH, Ky. – A broken baler has been fixed and the cleanup of “drum mountain” has resumed at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant. “Drum Mountain” is the nickname for a massive pile of discarded and rusting drums once used to store depleted uranium tetra-fluoride at the plant. Officials think they are a major source of […]
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EPA to review contamination from Idaho phosphorous plants
The Shoshone-Bannock tribes have convinced the Environmental Protection Agency to take a second look at soil and water contamination from two phosphorous plants that operate within or near their reservation’s borders. The federal agency will review cleanup plans for the Superfund site that includes the plants run by FMC, now called Astaris, and the J.R. […]
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Smith running for reelection two years early
HOLLIS – Though it is two years until he is up for reelection, Sen. Bob Smith is already campaigning. Last night at a home in Hollis, Smith met with his supporters and a group of fluoridation opponents. Smith said he had been at it all day, visiting towns along the Connecticut River, spreading the word […]
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U.S. Senate Hears Protective Measures for Fluoride are Insufficient
Amidst all of the hurry and scurry of Congress attempting to wind legislative activity down before the Fourth of July break, on June 29, 2000 in a hearing of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Water, witnesses testified that the level of fluoride allowed in the public water supply […]
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Critics of fluoridating drinking water greet Sen. Bob Smith’s initiative
While many people consider fluoridation one of the greatest public-health success stories of the 20th century, a growing camp of scientists, dentists and activists asserts that the United States has a large-scale public-health disaster on its hands. And last week, U.S. Sen. Robert C. Smith, R-N.H., called a senior employee of the Environmental Protection Agency […]
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Opponents of water fluoridation take grievances to Washington
CONCORD (AP) ? Fluoridating drinking water was a hot issue in the 1950s, when some considered it a communist plot. Now, the critics are back, this time citing health concerns. Rather than helping to prevent dental decay, fluoride is poisoning them slowly, harming bones and hindering brain development, they claim. Last week, the critics got […]
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Fluoridation vote still up in air
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Advocates of water fluoridation say obstacles in some Utah counties to put the issue on the November ballot are being made up by opponents. However, officials in Weber, Utah and Davis counties say water districts overlap county lines, and that could make the proposed vote invalid under language of legislation […]
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Fluoride only major item on Frostburg agenda
FROSTBURG — The decision to fluoridate Frostburg’s water system could come as early as Wednesday. All five members of the incoming mayor and council have publicly expressed their support of fluoridating the city’s water supply, and the group may vote on the issue shortly after being sworn in on Wednesday evening. “My intent is to […]
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Fluoridation Reconsidered
Last year, Hardy Limeback, announced that he no longer supports fluoridation of municipal drinking water. What makes this news is that Mr. Limeback is the Head of Preventative Dentistry at the University of Toronto and, for the previous 12 years, he was a leading proponent of fluoridation for the Canadian Dental Association. “The message has […]
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