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• Our dangerous addiction

  Excerpts: Growing Pain: New Zealand’s dangerous addition to fertilizer … For many decades, much of the phosphate from Banaba and Nauru was shipped to New Zealand and Australia, well below the market rate, and spread on farms by planes piloted by war veterans. New Zealand enjoyed decades of cheap phosphate, which became lucrative meat and […]

• Duluth leaders push for closer look at toxic refinery chemical

  Thick smoke pours from the fire at the Husky Energy oil refinery in Superior, Wis., on April 26, 2018. Bob King | Duluth News Tribune 2018 Duluth Mayor Emily Larson won’t easily forget the day in April 2018 when a massive explosion and fire rocked the Husky Energy oil refinery in neighboring Superior, Wis., sending a […]

• Canadian Mother-Offspring IQ Study: Forbes, Aug 20.

  Fluoride And IQ? What Is The Link, What This Study Says By Bruce Y. Lee, Senior Contributor Many communities have long put fluoride in drinking water to prevent tooth decay. But if you Google “fluoride makes you dumb,” you’ll get plenty of sites advancing unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about how the government is putting fluoride in […]

• Montreal mayoral candidate promises fluoridation

  Fluoridation has become a hot topic in Montreal’s mayoral race. Despite concerns from environmental and health groups, Pierre Bourque, a former mayor and current mayoral candidate in the November municipal elections, is pledging to add fluoride to Montreal’s drinking water if he is elected. Montreal is one of the last major cities in North America […]

• Canadian Mother-Offspring IQ Study: American Council on Science and Health.

  No, Fluoride Doesn’t Lower IQ. It Fails to Satisfy Hill’s Criteria of Causality By Alex Berezow Because Americans have a conspiracy theory about everything, of course there’s a conspiracy involving drinking water. Didn’t you know that fluoride, which is added to our drinking water to keep our teeth healthy (and is considered one of the […]

• Letters in support of fluoridation to Reading officials from: American Academy of Pediatrics; Pew Charitable Trusts; and others.

  The following statements in support of fluoridation are contained in this pdf: August 12, 2014, Letter from the Berks County Community Foundation to Members, City of Reading Board of Health Members, City of Reading Environmental Advisory Council Reading City Hall Reading , PA 19601 Dear Members: At its meeting of July 23, 2014, the Berks […]

• Long Beach Supervisor strongly dissents to refineries continued use of Modified Hydrofluoric Acid (MHF)

  In an abrupt conclusion to an issue covered in detail in multiple stories by LBREPORT.com, the governing board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) voted 8-3 on Sept. 6 — with L.A. County Supervisor Janich Hahn strongly dissenting (AUDIO below) to approve a proffer by the Valero Wilmington and Torrance (ToRC) refineries […]

• The TSCA Trial. Day 3.

  THE THIRD DAY. By  Paul Connett, PhD, Director of FAN Day 3, June 11, was very rich and rewarding for the plaintiff’s case as presented by lawyers Michael Connett and Andy Waters. We heard from Dr Howard Hu, Dr Bruce Lanphear, Casey Hannan (excerpts from his videotaped deposition – the current director of the Division […]

• Recap of Day 7 of the TSCA Trial: An Historic Moment

  *Due to the importance of this moment in our campaign to end fluoridation we’ve updated last night’s bulletin. When we quoted Dr. Donohue we referred to it making a difference to existing fluoride studies – it should have been existing fluoride standards.  Also, one of our supporters has pledged to double the first $1,000 donated today in celebration of the trial! […]

• The risk remains — refinery’s use of hydrogen fluoride not going anywhere fast

  Storage tanks damaged by fire frame several refining towers at the Husky Energy refinery in Superior. The refinery experienced a large fire earlier this year that damaged much of the infrastructure at the facility. — Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com1 / 4 As burning asphalt poured a plume of black smoke over Douglas County on April […]