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  • Chapel Hill: OWASA Will Soon Reintroduce Fluoride Into Its Water Supply. Critics Say the Authority Is Unethicall

    Curtis Williams slowly steps up close to the microphone. Standing in front of the board of commissioners for Orange County’s water authority, he’s holding a faded red dictionary and a poster board on which he’s drawn the cell structure of fluorine. Any dictionary, he says, will tell you what you need to know about the […]

  • Bega Valley: Sifting through sea of ‘evidence’ on fluoride

    No issue has been more divisive for the Bega Valley in recent months than fluoride. That council is considering fluoridation of the whole shire’s drinking water supplies as part of service upgrades has drawn a lot of debate – both for and against. At the heart of the debate lie studies and quoted findings pointing to […]

  • Chapel Hill: The water company canceled its meeting. The fluoride critics showed up anyway

    A group of protesters brought their concerns about fluoride to OWASA’s meeting Thursday, even thought no one was there to listen. Fluoride Free Chapel Hill/Carrboro members had planned to petition against fluoride at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority’s board of directors meeting. The meeting was canceled Aug. 10 when OWASA staff told the board […]

  • FAN is Now Suing the EPA to End Fluoridation

    It’s official: the Fluoride Action Network–along with a coalition of environmental and public health groups–has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to their denial of our petition under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) seeking a […]

  • Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz Responds to the Australian Government’s Dental Fluoride Campaign

    To Whom It May Concern: I am writing this open commentary as a Tufts University trained dentist, Harvard trained public health expert, author of nineteen books and three dozen scientific peer reviewed publications, a maker of six documentary films (including the “Best Film-2016” in London and Geneva competitions titled UN-VAXXED: A Docu-commentary for Robert De […]

  • Unprecedented Lawsuit Could End Water Fluoridation in US Based on Neurotoxicity Studies

    Story at-a-glance Fluoride Action Network (FAN) is among a coalition of environmental, medical and health groups suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban artificial water fluoridation The EPA has been served with a petition that includes more than 2,500 pages of scientific documentation detailing the risks of water fluoridation to human health New […]

  • Fluoride, ATV petitions circulating in Petersburg

    Opponents of fluoride use in Petersburg’s water and supporters of all-terrain vehicle use on Petersburg streets are both circulating petitions to get those topics on the October ballot. The Petersburg borough has certified two ordinances for signature gathering to force a vote on the topics. One petition seeks to allow off-highway vehicles on most roads […]

  • Healdsburg fluoridation struggle continues

    Two years after overwhelming supporting fluoridation of their city water, Healdsburg voters will again weigh in on the issue. But the ballot language approved by the City Council Monday appears headed toward a court challenge. The question approved by the City Council Monday on a 4-1 vote is straightforward: “Shall the City of Healdsburg stop […]

  • Bega Valley: Fluoridation debate far from clear with petitions to council, closed door meetings

    The divisive nature of water fluoridation was put in stark relief this week for Bega Valley residents. On Tuesday, petitions containing an estimated 2000 signatures of residents against adding fluoride to the shire’s drinking water were presented to the council. Meanwhile, on Wednesday councillors met with representatives from NSW Health to discuss the benefits of […]

  • FAN Sues EPA to End Fluoridation

    It’s official: the Fluoride Action Network, along with a coalition of environmental and public health groups, has filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to their denial of our petition under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) […]