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• House takes second try to pass bill for fluoride

  SALEM — Pressure is building on the Oregon Legislature to require cities to add fluoride to their drinking water. Such a bill passed the House in March but appears bottled up in a Senate committee. So proponents have inserted identical language in another House bill, giving them a second shot at passage through a different, […]

• Mention fluoride, and fight’s on

  Decades after most of the rest of the nation accepted adding fluoride to the water supply to prevent tooth decay, the issue remains a flashpoint in Oregon. “Of all the issues in the state, this is one of the most contentious,” says Brett Hamilton, a director of the Oregon Dental Association, which supports fluoridation. “It’s […]

• Assembly committee clears bill to add fluoride to N.J. drinking water

  Supported by medical professionals but opposed by environmentalists and water companies, a plan to require all of New Jersey’s public water supplies be treated with fluoride cleared an Assembly committee today. Assembly Health Committee Chairman and bill sponsor Herb Conaway made it clear from the outset of today’s hearing that the bill would be approved […]

• Unstable Element. Are Austin’s water fluoridation policies dangerous? It depends who you ask

  The reduced form of the highly reactive chemical element fluorine – better known as fluoride – is commonly added to municipal tap water, in order to strengthen our teeth. When we eat sugars and refined carbs, bacteria lurking in our mouths use them to form acids. Eventually the acids can grow strong enough to eat […]

• Full vetting of fluoride plan needed

  The state Assembly health committee seems to be in an awful hurry to force municipalities in New Jersey to fluoridate their public water supplies. A bill to require the fluoridation of water was introduced on Feb. 5 and unanimously approved by the committee less than two business days later on Monday afternoon. Did we miss […]

• Citgo plant fire spurs new look at hydrogen fluoride

  Article Title: Refining chemical cause of concern Article Sub-title: Citgo plant fire spurs new look at hydrogen fluoride CORPUS CHRISTI — A fire last month at a local Citgo refinery has focused attention on what is likely the most dangerous chemical used in the refining process. Hydrogen fluoride, an acid, is used as a catalyst […]

• Obama administration breaks with the years of ‘climate change denial’

  The Obama administration took a bold first step towards limiting the gases that cause global warming today after formally declaring that such emissions are a danger to public health. The official finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that carbon dioxide and five other gases threaten public welfare sets the stage for regulation of emissions from […]

• NF3: Committee OKs pro-environment bill to regulate gas 17,000 times more damaging than carbon dioxide

  SACRAMENTO – An environmental policy-setting panel today approved Sen. Jenny Oropeza´s plan to reduce the release into the air of a widely used ´greenhouse´ gas previously thought harmless. The Senate Environmental Quality Committee´s approval of Senate Bill 104 came the week following Earth Day. If adopted into law, SB 104 would direct the California Air […]

• Sulfuryl fluoride: Dow Pitching New Pesticide That Doubles as an Extraordinarily Potent Greenhouse Gas

  SAN FRANCISCO, JULY 13, 2009 — Public health and environmental advocates Friday asked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to deny a request from Dow AgroSciences for a permit allowing it to release large amounts of sulfuryl fluoride onto farm fields in four states. The chemical is a toxic pesticide whose global warming effects are thousands […]

• Fluoride Release Leads to Evacuation of Texas Neighborhood

  Yesterday, July 9, an explosion occured at a Texas oil refinery which resulted in the release of an unspecified, but potentially large amount of hydrogen fluoride. According to the article which appeared in today’s Corpus Christi Caller Times, a seven block area adjacent to the plant was soon evacuated after winds blew the HF gas […]