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Pro-fluoride group concedes – Voters reject fluoridation in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. – Early returns Tuesday night showed voters rejecting fluoridating Portland’s water 60 percent to 40 percent. And just before 9 p.m., the pro-fluoride group Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland conceded it would not win its battle to get fluoride added to the city’s water. Get the latest results for this measure. But the campaign […]
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A brief history of America’s fluoride wars
The fluoridation war is alive in Portland, Ore. The city is one of the few major American cities that does not fluoridate its water supply. It is now in the middle of a heated battle about whether to change that. While the Portland City Council voted last fall to reverse policy and begin fluoridating the […]
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Portland Uses Science & Integrity to Defeat Fluoridation
A broad coalition of Portlanders have resoundingly rejected adding fluoridation chemicals to the city’s water supply. By a 61% to 39% margin, Portland voters agreed with the positon of most western nations that there are safer, more effective, and less intrusive ways to promote oral health than adding a chemical linked to thyroid disease, IQ loss, and […]
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Templeton votes for fluoridation — again
TEMPLETON — The town’s water will remain fluoridated, there will be no audit of the construction of the town’s wind turbine, and after four evenings, the town’s annual town meeting is done. Voters Monday night rejected three articles brought by citizens petition to regulate fluoride in the town’s drinking water system. For the third year […]
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Hamilton: Ex Dental Association President Fronts Fluoridation Tribunal
Dr Andrew Harms, former president of the South Australian branch of the Australian Dental Association will be joining New Zealand doctors and dentists in a bid to inform Hamilton councillors of the need to stop adding harmful fluoride chemicals to the community water supply. Dr Harms will be joined by local doctor Peter Scanlon and […]
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Portland: With ballots being counted tonight, more money flows into pro-fluoride campaign
The long-running reality show known as Measure 26-151, which would require the fluoridation of Portland’s water supply, draws to a close today. Ballots are due at Multnomah County elections or official ballot drop spots by 8 pm this evening. Filings today show that the Northwest Health Foundation contributed another $30,000 to the pro-fluoride campaign, Healthy […]
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Portland: New emails reveal direct involvement by state agency in pro-fluoride campaign
Clean Water Portland Calls for Investigation of Improper Collaboration PORTLAND, May 20 – Newly uncovered emails from the Oregon Health Authority show direct collaboration between key OHA staff and Healthy Kids Healthy Portland to shape strategy and messages for the campaign to add fluoridation chemicals to Portland’s tap water. The emails, obtained by Clean Water […]
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Gift of salt for Czech research program
A Czech nuclear research institute has received a shipment of fluoride salt from the US Department of Energy. The ?ež research institute is conducting studies into the use of the salt as a coolant in high-temperature nuclear reactors. The provision of such raw materials is provided for under a memorandum of understanding signed by the […]
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Portland Fluoridation Vote Reignites Debate
Voters in Portland, Ore., will decide tomorrow (May 21) whether the city will begin fluoridating its water. For weeks, residents have been contentiously debating water fluoridation, the addition of fluoride to public water supplies for the purpose of reducing cavities and tooth decay. Portland is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States […]
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Hydraulic Fracturing: Calif.’s proposed moratoriums might not apply to other drilling in Monterey Shale — activists
A war of words is brewing over hydraulic fracturing and efforts to ban or limit it in California. Activists who believe they’ve created negative buzz around the oil and gas extraction process also called “fracking” have launched a new battle: persuading the state’s Legislature to look at also restricting different drilling techniques. Green groups warn […]
United States, California Fracking