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• Portland. The Battle For Bull Run: Fighting Against Fluoridation

  With the amount of media blitzing that’s bombarded Portland’s airwaves, interwebs, and neighborhood front yards, you’d have thought the dual campaigns for and against fluoridating Bull Run fresh water had been going on for years.  In fact, this fight started in earnest just last fall, when the consulting & lobbying group Upstream Public Health began […]

• Industry-backed bill protects pesticide profits over children’s health

  Dow AgroSciences, one of the nation’s largest pesticide makers, along with various food companies, have persuaded several members of Congress to endorse a bill that directs the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to reverse a proposed phaseout of sulfuryl fluoride, a highly toxic food fumigant and potent greenhouse gas. If passed, the bill would make the […]

• Portland Uses Science & Integrity to Defeat Fluoridation

  Portland, Oregon — A broad coalition of Portlanders have resoundingly rejected adding fluoridation chemicals to the city’s water supply.  By a 61%  to 39% margin, Portland voters agreed with the positon of most western nations that there are safer, more effective, and less intrusive ways to promote oral health than adding a chemical linked to thyroid disease, […]

• Portland. Debating fluoride: The environmental impact

  PORTLAND, Ore. – Portlanders will vote next month on whether to add fluoride to their water system.  But will it damage the environment, specifically our rivers and fish? Angler Paul Johnston – known by his friends as Crawdad Paul – has been fishing salmon for 75 years.  He was pulling his boat in at Cathedral […]

• Portland fluoride vote: Contentious issue sparks a civil war among progressives

  Heather Leek and Rebecca Bauer both voted for President Barack Obama, champion school funding measures and support the right of gays and lesbians to marry. But over cocktails one recent evening, the longtime Portland friends found themselves sparring over fluoridating Portland’s water. “I didn’t see that coming,” said Leek, a supporter of fluoridation and president […]

• Editorial by the Portland Mercury for fluoridation

  The Sanest Arguments Against Fluoride…And Why They’re Still Wrong IF FLUORIDE FAILS at the ballot box later this month—an incredibly distinct possibility, and something of a tragedy for Portland—it won’t be because of the kooks and the conspiracy theorists who’ve spent decades stoking panic about a safe, tested, and effective health measure. That ugly strain […]

• Marching Fourth for Clean Water In Portland

  Alberta Street saw upwards of 700 clean water lovers take to the streets Thursday in opposition to fluoridation chemicals being added to fresh Bull Run tap water.  The heated campaigns for and against fluoridation have been waging an all out war, though the pro-fluoride side has received far greater big-money donations from large business interests. […]

• You’re Invited to FAN’s Fifth Citizens’ Conference on Fluoride

  Dear Supporter, We would like to formally invite you to attend FAN’s Fifth Citizens’ Conference on Fluoride, which will take place at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Crystal City, Virginia, September 5 – 8, 2014. In this three-day Conference we will focus on Science (Sat Sept 6), Organization (Sun Sept 7) and Action (Mon Sept 8). We […]

• Fluoridated water? Not all Portlanders will drink to that

  PORTLAND, Ore. — Proponents of fluoridating Portland’s water supply had no trouble getting the local Urban League on board. Here in the biggest city in the country that still doesn’t treat its water to prevent tooth decay, studies show that low-income children and kids of color have been hit hardest by untreated cavities. “Do we […]

• Tooth and Nail: Fluoride Fight Cracks Portland’s Left

  PORTLAND, Ore.—In the 1950s, after health authorities began fluoridating U.S. water supplies, they faced opposition from groups like the John Birch Society, which called it “an unconstitutional mass medication of the public.” Sixty years later, the fight over fluoridation has erupted in Portland, where the battle has drawn in the city’s craft-beer brewers, organic-food purveyors […]