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  • ACSH Considers Legal Action Against Attempts to Reclassify Fluoride

    The American Council on Science and Health said last week that it will seek to restrain any federal agency from banning or seeking to reclassify fluoride from a non-carcinogen to a probable carcinogen. “If the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) tries to undermine the public confidence in fluoride, we will take steps to stop them,” said […]

  • The Top Ten Unfounded Health Scares of 2011

    I. Introduction Some old scares refuse to die. This year finds us with revivals of more than a few stories that we had hoped would stay in the junk scares graveyard, where they belong. But from phthalates to genetically modified fish, consumers continue to be needlessly frightened about safe products. Still, we’ve also been kept […]

  • Fluoridation’s dirty little secret

    If the benefits to teeth from fluoridated water are hard to find, the damage done to teeth by fluoridated water is easy to see – literally. Dental fluorosis is a mottling of the tooth surface that can range from mild discoloration of the tooth surface to severe staining and pitting. The condition is permanent after […]

  • Chinese fluoride is a homeland security matter

    The Pure Water Committee of Western Maryland Inc. was formed in 1960 as a grass roots network of citizens with a 50-year-old mission to educate the public of the complete fraud of the practice called water fluoridation. Recently, it has come to my attention in an engineering report for the city of Boulder, Colo., that […]

  • Salmon producers, doctors, environmentalists, criticize Noranda’s proposed Aluminum plant in Chile

    The Association of Salmon and Trout Producers said they reject the Region XI Alumysa project because of a number of problems detected in the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) carried out by Environmental Management Consulting for the salmon farmers. Victor Hugo Puchi, president of the association, said the project could devastate the salmon sector in southern […]

  • Ecological Russian Roulette

    NADVOITSY, Russia – The children of this town learn early not to smile. When they do, they show a ghastly array of blackened, splintered, rotting stumps where milk-white teeth might have been. An environmental plague has struck this northern land of lakes, no longer pristine, and thinning pine forests. The children of Nadvoitsy are its […]

  • My Life as a Dump: Risking Life and Lung in the Toxic American Century

    THE BUSTER BROWN shoe store on Collinsville Avenue in East St. Louis had a wonderful machine where I would stand with my feet, in their shoes, inserted beneath an oblong box, like a low, enclosed lectern, called a Fluoroscope, which shot X-rays into my toes, gonads, liver and brain and let me see clearly what […]

  • Alcoa costs order to affect hundreds

    Aluminium company Alcoa has been ordered to pay the medical costs of a former employee diagnosed with bladder cancer 12 years after working at its Geelong plant. The decision may affect more than 7000 past and present workers. County Court Judge Graeme Hicks yesterday found Geoffrey Stevens’ work as an operator in the plant’s pot […]

  • Health, Environment in Danger from Russian Region’s Metal Works

    Russia TV’s “Vesti Nedeli” Sunday feature on 8 June highlighted the plight of an area in Russia’s northwestern region of Karelia, the site of a major aluminium producer, whose residents have “lived in dreadful environmental conditions for decades”. Children and adults alike suffer from fluorosis. The concentration of cancerous substances is massive. One man has […]

  • Local fight led to metal-smelting controls

    All Christy Carton wanted to do was prevent her town’s ground water from being contaminated with cyanide. (and fluoride) She ended up doing a bit more than that. The Frederick County mother and environmental champion won a court battle that will change how dozens of U.S. companies dispose of the wastes from smelting metals. The […]