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• South Carolina Petitions EPA to Relax Fluoride Standard

  The Washington Post December 10, 1981 Too Much Fluoride in the Water? By Walter Pincus It wasn’t that long ago when some conservative groups were opposing the introduction of fluoride into local water systems, saying that the addition of the chemical to fight tooth decay was a sign that communism was taking over. Well, fluoride […]

• The ‘Altered Recommendations’ of the 1983 Surgeon General’s Panel

  “We believe that EPA staff and managers should be called to testify, along with members of the 1983 Surgeon Generals panel and officials of the Department of Human Services, to explain how the original recommendations of the Surgeon Generals panel were altered to allow EPA to set otherwise unjustifiable drinking water standards for fluoride.”

• Fluoride’s Revenge: Has this cure, too, become a disease?

  An investigation of the health effects of fluoride, including two Freedom of Information Act requests that pried loose more than 10,000 pages of documentation, shows that a Government regulation intended to prevent fluorosis was derailed by a decades-old controversy between two agencies over a legally unrelated Government policy.

• Mosaic Mine Expansion A Rocky Proposal

  The Tampa Tribune recently ran a story about a small band of Hillsborough County residents who are teaming up and gathering petitions against Mosaic Co.’s proposal to expand its Fort Lonesome and Four Corners phosphate mining operations by 1,599 acres. Residents worry about contamination to their wells and toxic dust blowing in the wind, sometimes […]

• 5 Takeaways From This Week’s Testimony in Landmark Fluoride Trial.

  THE DEFENDER. The plaintiffs rested their case on Wednesday in the landmark fluoride trial after nearly six days of at times contentious and highly technical testimony that to ok a deep dive into science on fluoride’s neurotoxic effects. Here are key takeaways. Fluoride on Trial: Week 1 After nearly six days of sometimes contentious and […]