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  • Bill to allow water customers to vote on fluoride fails in Senate committee

    Bill to allow water customers to vote on fluoride fails in Senate committee Andy Anderson testified before a state Senate committee Tuesday regarding a bill that would have allowed people to vote on fluoridation of water, but he said the bill failed and won’t make it to the Senate floor. Senate Bill 299 was sponsored […]

  • EPA Denies TSCA Section 21 Petition on Fluoride Chemicals in Drinking Water; Provides Response to Petition

    On February 27, 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced in a Federal Register notice that it was denying a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 21 petition that requested regulatory action under Section 6 to “prohibit the purposeful addition of fluoridation chemicals to U.S. water supplies,” and that it was making available its […]

  • Fluoride Chemicals in Drinking Water; TSCA Section 21 Petition; Reasons for Agency Response

    Federal Register | PDF version Summary This document announces the availability of EPA’s response to a petition it received on November 23, 2016, under section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The TSCA section 21 petition was received from the Fluoride Action Network, Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, the American Academy […]

  • Bills opposing fluoridation of water supplies killed by House committee

    Two attempts to curtail fluoridation of public water supplies have been shot down by a committee of the New Hampshire House. One bill, HB230, would have made it harder to file petitions seeking to add fluoride to water supplies. The other, HB585, would have changed state law to ban fluoridation outright; currently, a municipal water supply can […]

  • Greenfield health board says ‘no’ to fluoride

    GREENFIELD — After hearing overwhelming opposition from residents, the town’s Board of Health has decided not to support community water fluoridation. In October, the Community Health Center of Franklin County suggested the town consider adding fluoride to its public water supply after a dental hygienist found a significant amount of tooth decay and oral health […]

  • Kennebunk, Kennebunkport & Wells: Water fluoridation set for November vote

    Voters in the seven communities served by the Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Wells Water District will vote next month on whether to continue adding fluoride to drinking water. The push to put the issue to voters is backed by a small group of residents who say adding fluoride to drinking water amounts to mass medicating and […]

  • Fluoride Outcry Explodes In Hixson As Water Wars Seep To City

    The board of a sleepy water district in Chattanooga is doused Friday under a cataract of opposition to fluoride that sloshed routine business to the back of the agenda. Hixson-area residents angered at the industrial acid in drinking water say Hixson Utility District is playing with the health of its customers by continuing the chemical […]

  • Greenville: Split Council votes to keep adding fluoride to water supply

    A split Greenville City Council has voted to affirm its earlier decision to resume adding fluoride into the local water supply. Several people spoke out about the practice during Tuesday’s council meeting, some for and some against. Dr. Robert Deuell was among those supporting the practice, citing a volume of peer-reviewed studies which touted the […]

  • Babinda meeting of Cairns Council turns on issue of fluoride in water

    CAIRNS regional councillors have gone out of their way to dodge advice on the controversial fluoride issue despite an official request by the region’s health professionals. The council held its ordinary meeting at Babinda RSL Memorial Hall yesterday before a sizeable public gallery. Councillors were happy to discuss a number of local agenda items, including […]

  • Petition to make Carrick-on-Shannon Fluoride Free

    An online petition to make Leitrim’s county town, Carrick-on-Shannon Flouride Free has attracted over 200 signatures. The organisers of the petition which is addressed to Leitrim HSE is headed by Tara Killeen. The group want “to follow in the footsteps of Bantry and Clonakilty, to be the third town in Ireland to be Fluoride free!” […]