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Train Derailment: Crews May Address Hydrogen Fluoride Cars Saturday
Update 9:45 p.m. Crews may attempt to stabilize and level two cars containing the dangerous gas hydrogen fluoride on Saturday afternoon — work that would require another shelter-in-place warning for a five-mile radius of the train derailment site near Dixie Highway and Katherine Station Road, said Doug Hamilton, executive director of Louisville-Jefferson County EMA/MetroSafe. On […]
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Fluoride: Wichita’s Big Question
Wichita voters will consider adding fluoride to the city water supply when they go to the polls on Nov. 6, and both sides have waged heavy campaigns over the hotly contested issue. Wichita’s history with the fluoride debate runs long and deep. Fluoride was first considered, but never carried out in 1950. It was rejected […]
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Eau Claire: County/City says data shows benefits of water fluoridation
A new study from the Eau Claire City County Health Department said Eau Claire city children have healthier teeth than surrounding communities. The reason: fluoride in the water, making them up to 16 percent less likely to have cavities. The six-month study of more than 500 third graders showed more cavities and tooth decay in […]
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Pinellas County Editorial: The real cost of the fluoride fiasco
Pinellas County commissioners did not just ignore established science when they voted 4-3 to stop adding fluoride this year to the county’s drinking water. They also cost families plenty of money and unlimited frustration, because dentists are now advising parents to give fluoride to their children to prevent tooth decay. Two of the Fluoride Four […]
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Sudbury: Fluoride plebiscite?
Regulating store hours might not be the only question put to Sudbury voters in the 2014 election. Mayor Marianne Matichuk said she may push for a referendum on putting fluoride in the city’s drinking water. She first brought up the issue two years ago in an effort to save the $100,000 the city spends on […]
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Portland. Poll: City evenly split on putting fluoride in drinking water
As the debate raged before the Portland City Council’s unanimous vote to fluoridate Portland’s drinking water in September, fluoride opponents had the loudest voices. But the latest KATU news poll conducted by Survey USA finds the fluoride debate has pretty much split voters down the middle. The poll showed that 45 percent of Portland’s registered voters think […]
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US election: 10 other things on the ballot
When Americans go to the polls on Tuesday, they will not just be choosing a president and members of Congress – there are 174 extra questions on the ballot in 38 states. And some go to the very heart of key issues in American society. 1. Marijuana Three states – Oregon, Washington and Colorado – […]
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Pinellas commissioners may lose seat over fluoride debate
The issue is the economy. (Not fluoride.) Jobs need to be saved. (Not teeth.) Voters care about choices. (Not conspiracies.) And that, in a nutshell, is the story of the two Pinellas County Commission races on the ballot. If incumbents Neil Brickfield and Nancy Bostock are correct — they say residents aren’t focused on their […]
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Ky. Evacuation Indefinite as Chemical Tanker Burns
Hundreds of people will remain forced from their homes indefinitely as a massive effort continued Friday to move derailed train cars filled with hazardous materials away from a car holding chemicals that continued to burn for a third day, officials said. “If we let them in prematurely, and God forbid had a catastrophic event … […]
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Science Panel releases final C8 exposure reports, adds new disease to list
PARKERSBURG – The litigants in the West Virginia and Ohio class action lawsuit filed the science panel’s final set of reports on Oct. 29 that conclusively link DuPont’s PFOA in drinking water to serious human diseases. The panel previously reported links with kidney cancer, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis and pregnancy-inducted hypertension, including preeclampsia. […]
United States, Ohio Perfluorinated chemicals