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  • Meeker residents to vote on fluoridation this fall

    Fluoride. It’s everywhere MEEKER | Since the late 1940s, fluoride—the ionic form of fluorine, which is the 13th most abundant element in the earth’s crust and is found naturally in water and air—started being added to some public drinking water supplies in the United States and Canada as a means of preventing dental caries, or […]

  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: What are PFAS?

    Note: This series concerns a proposal to use incineration to recycle lithium-ion batteries. It was proposed for Endicott in Broome County NY. The proposal resulted in the formation of the group NoBurnBroome on April 15, 2020, to oppose the proposal, which it successfully accomplished in February 2021. The Fluoride Action Network was interested in this […]

  • Senate bill would ban toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in makeup, which new study found are often unlabeled

    Researchers found indicators of PFAS in roughly half of mascaras, lipsticks and foundations tested. The toxic chemicals were widespread and often not accurately labeled. Plastic cosmetic bottles on the production line at the Taejin Chemical Co. factory in Hwaseong, South Korea, on May 27. (SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg News)   Cosmetics distributed in the United States and […]

  • Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Detected in Drinking Water at N.Y. Army Installations

    WASHINGTON – Drinking water supplies at seven Army installations in New York state are contaminated with elevated levels of toxic fluorinated chemicals called PFAS, according to newly released Department of Defense data obtained by EWG under the Freedom of Information Act. The sites in New York include Fort Drum, Camp Smith, West Point Military Reservation, […]

  • The 9 “No Effect” IQ Studies

    The following 9 studies,which did not find an association between exposure to fluoride and lowered IQ, included 4,363 children and 1,037 adults. The Spanish 2021 study by Ibarluzea et al. found an increase of 15 IQ points for boys living in fluoridated communities. It differs significantly from other observations. The study from New Zealand (Broadbent […]

  • Opinion: A Black Dallas School Teacher Opened the Door to Fluoride’s History

    A Dallas African American school teacher opened the door to a dark, hidden history.  It is the history of secret human experiments by the government, universities and industry during World War 2 and the Cold War.  It is the history of water fluoridation and the toxic, multi-fluorinated PFAS “Forever Chemicals” like Teflon and Scotchgard.  Prior to World War 2, no one […]

  • What is Gaseous Diffusion?

    Gaseous diffusion is a complicated technology that helped end World War II, powered the U.S. Navy’s nuclear fleet, and helped generate more than 10 percent of the world’s electricity. One of the most closely guarded American secrets of WW II, the process separated the most common form of uranium, U-238, from the much rarer isotope, […]

  • Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities

    The gas, sulfur hexafluoride, is one of the most potent and long-lasting climate pollutants—known collectively as “the immortals”—because they remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. This article was published in partnership with NBC News.  DAVIDSON, N.C.—Four thin, metal cylinders containing the world’s most potent greenhouse gas stand lashed to the base of a Duke […]

  • Research show some PFAS destroyed, others created at Manchester incinerator

    Fred McNeill, chief engineer at the Manchester wastewater treatment plant, seen here giving a tour in April 2021, says he is annoyed that Ohio research company Battelle didn’t release the complete results of its research on emissions at the plant. DAVID LANE/UNION LEADER The air emissions pipe from the Manchester wastewater treatment plant, as seen […]

  • Persistent farmer whose cows died from a mysterious disease helped unravel the origin of toxic chemicals

    DuPont’s Washington Works plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. (Maddie McGarvey/for the Washington Post) If Wilbur Earl Tennant’s cows hadn’t died from a mysterious wasting disease during the 1990s, the world might have never learned about the secret history of toxic forever chemicals. Tennant was a West Virginia farmer whose family owned land near a DuPont […]