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• System repairs pull fluoride from water until summer

  “It’s incredibly obvious isn’t it?” asks a crazed General Ripper in Dr. Strangelove, convinced that water fluoridation is a Communist plot to control America. “Foreign substances introduced into our precious bodily fluids, without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That’s the way a hard-core Commie works.” Although not without its real life […]

• Bishopville to stop adding fluoride to water

  BISHOPVILLE – Water – it runs from every spigot, every faucet, every shower head. And in Bishopville, it soon will become more natural. At the end of June, Bishopville will discontinue adding fluoride to its water, a practice that started more than 30 years ago. The American Dental Association began promoting adding fluoride to town […]

• Ohio Dialysis Accident Leaves 16 hospitalized, 1 Dead

  YOUNGSTOWN: Sixteen people remained hospitalized yesterday with problems suffered when they received treatment at a dialysis center. A 57-year-old man died Wednesday after being treated at the Physicians Dialysis Center in Youngstown. One person was reported in critical condition at Northside Medical Center and two were listed as critical at St. Elizabeth Health Center. The […]

• Renal Care closes unit after death

  NEW YORK (Reuters) – Renal Care Group Inc. said Friday that it closed an Ohio dialysis unit after a patient undergoing treatment there died and another 18 were hospitalized with chills and fever. The problem occurred Wednesday at the Youngstown unit and is being investigated by local, state and national authorities, including the U.S. Centers […]

• Fluoride Accumulations Killing Fish, Pine Trees, and Poisoning Environment

  Although the first public drinking water supply in this country was fluoridated 56 years ago, the impact of fluoride on the environment has only recently begun to be studied. Unlike health impacts, which have been the subject of hundreds of research articles by university scientists published in academic journals worldwide, the buildup of fluoride in […]

• Council asked to halt fluoridation of water

  VALPARAISO — Instead of convincing the city to halt the use of fluoride in its water system as he had hoped, Gary Foreman was asked to do what he already is doing: lead the public discussion on the issue. Foreman, president of Native Sun Productions in Valparaiso, came to Monday’s City Council meeting asking that […]

• Fluoride Pollution at Akwesasne Reservation

  James Thompson pulls open the barbed wire gate leading to a grassy pasture and, with two mongrel dogs at his heels, steps inside to inspect his 50 head of Hereford cattle, all dying slowly from fluoride poisoning. His herd stands in minature; stunted, only waist-high. Calves are sometimes stillborn. The cows, after four years, can’t […]

• Mohawks seek deer jaws to help with fluoride monitoring

  HOGANSBURG – The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s environmental division is trying to collect 75 lower jaws from deer killed by hunters on the reservation. They need the jaws to monitor the amount of fluoride in deer and to see if it has reached levels that forced the slaughtering of cattle on the reservation in the […]

• Managing methamphetamine mess

  Victor Boyd cleans up the sort of mess few people want anything to do with – the remnants of illegal methamphetamine laboratories. The Titirangi resident got his idea for his company, Contaminated Site Solutions, while working for another commercial cleaner. “We’d been approached by a couple of councils and they didn’t know how to deal […]

• Kansas City, Missouri: EPA Joins Probe in Bannister Investigation

  A little background to this newspaper report from an US EPA Fact Sheet of January 2010: Bannister Federal Complex, 1500 E. Bannister Road, Kansas City, Missouri INTRODUCTION The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7, at the request of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR), will work with the General Services Administration (GSA) to […]