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Carroll-Boone Water District manager Jim Allison dies
EUREKA SPRINGS — James Ray Allison, office manager of the Carroll-Boone Water District, passed away suddenly Sunday of unknown causes at the age of 67. Allison had worked for the water district for about 20 years, with some time in between opening a restaurant in Eureka Springs with his wife, Sandra, and working in a […]
United States, Arkansas -
Now is OUR time. Tell Levi’s to Detox!
Wow. We are just over 36 hours into our campaign calling on the world’s largest jeans manufacturer to Detox its products and supply chain, and already Levi’s resolve is unraveling at the seams. This is all thanks to YOUR help: More than 100,000 people have already joined the campaign calling for fashion without pollution and […]
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South Burnett: Fluoride fairy enters debate
MONEY saved by cutting fluoridisation programs should go to improving dental services, the Australian Dental Association Queensland president said. Last week the State Government announced it would no longer force towns with more than 1000 people to fluoridate their water. The change means the South Burnett Regional Council could cease fluoridating the region’s water supplies. […]
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County Kilkenny: Contaminants in water supply highlighted by EPA
Instances of lead, arsenic, fluoride and other contaminants were found on separate occasions in public water supplies around County Kilkenny in 2011, according to a report from the Environmental Protection Agency. According to the EPA’s annual report for 2011, which was published last week, there were instances of lead found in the old Castlecomer water […]
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Watertown: City fluoride debate will continue
A group of residents has not given up its fight to get rid of fluoride in the city water supply. Organizer Troy M. Walts, 380 Brainard St., said he and about 15 other city residents have been working on their next step to try to persuade the city to eliminate fluoride from the water supply […]
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Hydrophobia helps UGA researcher attack pollutants
They’re everywhere, and they’re proving to be nearly indestructible — and humans made them. Perfluorocarbon chemicals are used in everything from carpet manufacturing to firefighting, but the problem is once they’re released into the environment, they’re hard to get rid of. Qingguo “Jack” Huang is an assistant professor of crop and soil sciences at the […]
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Moreton Bay Regional Council calls for report into ditching fluoride from water supply
Moreton Bay Regional Council may stop its fluoridation of drinking water after a councillor described fluoride as ‘poisonous”. At Tuesday’s co-ordination committee meeting, Cr James Houghton (Division 5) said the council should opt out “because we were never given the choice to opt in”. “I’ve seen so much evidence about the (dangers of) fluoride they […]
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Ligonier: Water for the 1,500 customers who used wells and a reservoir will now be fluoridated
Beginning this week, Ligonier-area residents will get their tap water from the Greater Johnstown Water Authority instead of local wells and a reservoir. A $10 million joint project between the Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County and the Johnstown authority will supply water to Ligonier Borough, Laughlintown, Laurel Mountain, and parts of Ligonier Township. Water for […]
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Nuclear energy: Radical reactors
For decades, one design has dominated nuclear reactors while potentially better options were left by the wayside. Now, the alternatives might finally have their day. Back in 2000, when Kirk Sorensen was a NASA engineer looking at nuclear-power options for future colonies on the Moon, he came across a book that described the molten-salt reactor: […]
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Chemists crack fluoroform challenge
US scientists appear to have cracked a long-standing problem in organofluorine chemistry – how to find a simple and efficient way to use the low-cost and abundant compound fluoroform as a trifluoromethylation agent. The work opens the way to tap the large volumes of fluoroform, CF3H, which are by-products of the synthesis of materials such […]
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