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  • The Horrible Chemicals That Make Your Winter Gear Waterproof

    They don’t break down … ever Ever since our early ancestors left the fertile sauna of Africa and headed North, we humans have been searching for ways to fend off sleet and snow and rain and cold. The Inuit once relied on seal and whale intestines to get the job done. Nowadays, we rely on […]

  • Cortland: County pushes for fluoridation study grant

    CORTLAND – County health officials refuse to let an opportunity to fluoridate public drinking water go away without a fight. City of Cortland officials were expected to receive a letter today or Monday from county Health Director Catherine Feuerherm, Seven Valleys Health Coalition Executive Director Jackie Leaf and county Environmental Health Director Michael Ryan offering […]

  • Global polyvinylidene fluoride coating market worth $241.4 million by 2019 according to new research report

    According to the new Market Research Report “Global Polyvinylidene Fluoride Coating Market by Application by Geography  – Analysis and Forecast to 2019″, the global PVDF coating market report defines and segments the concerned market with analysis and forecast of revenue. This market was valued at $176.5 million in 2014 and is projected to reach $241.4 […]

  • Asheville: Water fluoridation faces tipping point

    With city council elections coming up, Raleigh’s attempt to commandeer Asheville’s water system remains in court. A related concern has been put off long enough. For 50 years, Asheville has medicated its water customers with fluoride. City voters approved, and the practice began in 1965. County voters had previously opposed fluoridation, but the N.C. Supreme […]

  • Fluorides in the water do more harm than good

    This summer, newspapers in northern Ohio have often reported microcystin contamination in our precious Lake Erie. Microcystin, released by blue-green algae, is a liver toxin. Our water is being monitored. If the microcystin concentrations reach only 0.3 ppb (parts per billion) in our tap water, “Do not drink” warnings will be issued for “pregnant women, […]

  • Port Angeles City Council picks top fluoridation questions for Oct. 22 forum

    The City Council has selected six questions that will be asked of opposing committees at a city water fluoridation forum Oct. 22. Council members unanimously chose the queries Tuesday after they had graded 20 questions. Ten questions were offered by each of the two committees, one for and one against fluoridation. The forum will be […]

  • Hayden voters to decide marijuana tax, fluoride issue

    Residents in Hayden will have two local issues to vote on. The first issue is whether the town should collect taxes on the wholesale sales of marijuana grown by cultivators… Hayden voters are also being asked whether they want the town to continue adding fluoride to the drinking water. Many municipalities across the country for […]

  • Fluoridation For Port Angeles Water Set For Pubic Hearings

    Port Angeles – A decision to renew the contract for the fluoridation of Port Angeles City water moved ahead at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, after the questions to be used at a public hearing were narrowed down. City Manager, Dan McKeen, provided a brief background for those in attendance on the process the city […]

  • Port Angeles City Council to choose fluoridation forum questions during Tuesday meeting

    PORT ANGELES — A process leading to a Nov. 6 advisory survey on fluoridation begins in earnest this week. City Council members will select six questions from among 20 that will form the basis of a 6 p.m. Oct. 22 forum when they meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 321 E. Fifth St. […]

  • DentaQuest Foundation funds Toolkit in effort to defeat those opposed to fluoridation

    Note from Fluoride Action Network: The following is on the Fluoridation Toolkit website [click on The opposition: who they are and what they say]. The Community Toolkit is a recently released series of strategies and propaganda tactics to enable federal and state medical professionals to fight for fluoridation and to discredit those opposed. It was […]