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Portland Fluoridation Vote Reignites Debate
Voters in Portland, Ore., will decide tomorrow (May 21) whether the city will begin fluoridating its water. For weeks, residents have been contentiously debating water fluoridation, the addition of fluoride to public water supplies for the purpose of reducing cavities and tooth decay. Portland is one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States […]
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The Fifth Citizens’ Conference on Fluoride – AGENDA
September 5 – 8, 2014 Hyatt Regency Hotel, Crystal, City, Virginia Saturday Sept 6 – The growing evidence that fluoride lowers IQ in children at fairly modest levels. Saturday will be devoted to the science that indicates that there is no margin of safety to protect all our citizens from known health effects when they […]
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Conspiracy Watch: Fluoride as Pinko Plot
Since the 1940s, Americans have been swallowing fluoride with their drinking water. Is it time to stop? THE CONSPIRACY: Starting in the mid-’40s, American cities began putting fluoride into their drinking water under the guise of preventing childhood tooth decay. Freedom-loving Americans found it hard to swallow. As Dr. Strangelove‘s Brig. General Jack D. Ripper […]
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New Dr. Mercola article on fluoridation
Dear Supporter, Osteopathic physician, entrepreneur, and strong FAN supporter, Doctor Joseph Mercola published a new article on fluoridation today on his website Mercola.com. The article entitled “Drinking Water May be Damaging Your Brain,” is the latest in a large collection of articles by Mercola on the health risks associated with fluoride and water fluoridation. Read Mercola’s […]
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Lithium-ion Battery Recycling: Timeline of No Burn Broome’s campaign
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 […]
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Spokane. We need clean water (Letter)
As in the case of Spokane, the city of Portland has also voted against water fluoridation multiple times. In reviewing the reasons why, a couple of things jumped out at me. First, city engineers estimated that it would require adding some 215,000 pounds of chemical fluoride to the Portland water supply annually. Shocked by that […]
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Sources of PFAS Incinerated at Cohoes, NY Revealed
The DOD shipped nearly 2 million pounds from 25 states; Private entities also delivered materials to be burned Norlite’s incineration facility has burned 2 million pounds of materials containing PFAS. Photo – Paul Buckowski – Albany Times Union The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYDEC) has released information on the sources of […]
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Toxic PFAS Fallout Found Near Incinerator in Upstate New York
PFAS contamination was found in soil and water near an incinerator in New York state that has been burning firefighting foam for the Department of Defense. Industrial chemicals known as PFAS have contaminated soil and water near an incinerator in upstate New York that has been burning firefighting foam. The facility is run by Norlite, […]
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Sierra Club Questionnaire to city of Davis candidates: Fluoridation
Introduction – Every 2 years the Sierra Club Yolano Group prepares questionnaires for candidates in local races we deem to be seriously contested and/or where there are clear differences between the candidates on matters of interest to the public and/or our local Sierra Club members. We use questionnaires with written responses to allow the candidates […]
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Pipe Dreams: America’s Fluoride Controversy
How did a seemingly benign chemical and a near-miraculous public-health initiative spark decades and decades debate? Grand Rapids schoolchildren giving saliva samples as part of the city’s water fluoridation project. National Library of Medicine The fluoridation era dawned sleepily enough in America. On the afternoon of January 25, 1945, municipal workers at the Grand Rapids, […]