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  • NTP 1990 Cancer Study: EPA Marcus on the downgrading of cancers

    Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy In 2013 David Kennedy, DDS, produced Fluoridegate: An American Tragedy, a classic documentary that is exquisite in capturing the battle that raged over the downgrading of cancers in the fluoride study overseen by the National Toxicology Program and published in 1990. Below we reprint the comments made by William Marcus, the […]

  • Notice Of Intent To List Chemical By The Authoritative Bodies Mechanism: Perfluorooctanoic Acid

    Public Comments Date: Friday, March 19, 2021 to Monday, May 3, 2021 The California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) (CAS RN 335-67-1) as known to the state to cause cancer under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65[1]).  This […]

  • NTP: Publicly Available Documents on Fluoride

    If there are documents that should be included in this list, please email them to us. Thanks Year Documents on Fluoride’s Toxicity NTP: National Toxicology Program NASEM: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine 2023 NTP. April. NTP Board of Scientific Counselors Working Group Report on the Draft State of the Science Monograph and the […]

  • NTP 1990 – 2021: Submissions to NTP and/or NAS

    Year Submissions to NTP and/or NAS on Fluoride’s Neurotoxicity ALSO LOOK AT https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/assessments/noncancer/completed/fluoride/index.html#background 2020 October 19, 2020. Submission from Chris Neurath on behalf of FAN to the National Academies Committee to Review the Revised National Toxicology Program’s Monograph on Systematic Review of Fluoride Exposure and Neurodevelopmental and Cognitive Health Effects. LINK: http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/ntp.neurath.submission-to-nas-on-revised-ntp-monograph.10-19-20.pdf 2020 October 19, […]

  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: The proposal in Endicott, NY, 2020-2021

    This is a photo of where an incinerator to recycle lithium-ion batteries in Endicott NY was proposed. Does this community like an industrial area to you? Status of the Project: successfully defeated on February 1, 2021, mainly due to the hard work of the residents of Endicott, Broome County, NY. Note: This series concerns a […]

  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: Background on IBM’s pollution in Endicott NY.

    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 […]

  • Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: Local News Articles from NY state

    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 […]

  • Fluoride and nitrate in groundwater of rural habitations of semiarid region of northern Rajasthan, India:

    A hydrogeochemical, multivariate statistical, and human health risk assessment perspective Abstract In arid and semiarid regions, groundwater is required for the drinking, agriculture, and industrial activities due to scarcity of surface water. Groundwater contaminated with high concentrations of fluoride and nitrate can severely affect human health in these regions. Twenty-eight groundwater samples from rural habitations […]

  • California Proposes Designating PFOA as a Carcinogen under Proposition 65

    Designation of PFOA as a Carcinogen Will Increase Litigation Risks and Expand Proposition 65 Labeling Obligations On March 19, 2021, California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced that it intends to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) as a chemical known to the State to cause cancer under California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement […]

  • Piney Point: Imminent Failure of Phosphogypsum Stack in Tampa Bay Exposes Phosphate Industry Risks.

    Catastrophic Wastewater Release Highlights Need for Federal Action ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Manatee County officials have issued evacuation orders for the area surrounding Florida’s Piney Point in anticipation of the imminent catastrophic collapse of a phosphogypsum stack retention pond holding up to 700 million gallons of wastewater. It has been reported that 22,000 gallons a minute […]