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• Petersburgh Water Contamination: ‘I’ve Got No Information from Anybody’

  PETERSBURGH, N.Y. — Residents were expecting to get more from health officials. Instead of waiting for answers, two women are taking things into their own hands. “Things take time, and I would love to have this all go away tomorrow,” said Petersburgh Town Supervisor Peter Schaaphok, “but it’s not. It’s going to be a situation that […]

• Court allows fluoridation case, rebuking US EPA’s TSCA interpretation

  Legal arguments have implications for citizen petitions and risk evaluation standards A US federal court allowed a group of NGOs to pursue a lawsuit demanding the US EPA bans the addition of fluoride to drinking water. The 21 December ruling denied the agency’s request to dismiss it. The case could have broad implications as it […]

• Judge to San Marcos: Review petition sigs, add fluoride ban amendment to ballot

  City of San Marcos voters are closer to weighing in on a charter amendment seeking to ban the city’s fluoridation of its water supply. Despite the city’s apparent commitment to disqualify a petition effort seeking this change, state Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Boyer late Friday ordered the city to review the petition signatures and, […]

• Rutland: Fluoride makes ballot

  The citizen group Rutland Fluoride Action, led by Jack Crowther, opposes adding fluoride to the city’s water supply Crowther and his group began gathering signatures on a petition that asked the question: “Shall the commissioner of public works fluoridate the public water supply of Rutland?” on July 31, to be added to the Town Meeting […]

• Fluoride activists call for withholding water payments in Port Angeles

  PORT ANGELES — In a call for civil disobedience, fluoride activists have mounted an effort to get city utility ratepayers to withhold payment of the water-usage portion of their utility bills. The goal: Get the city to stop fluoridating its drinking water. Ratepayer Jessica Grable put the $40 she would have paid for her December […]

• San Marcos anti-fluoride measure wins with 61 percent of vote

  San Marcos residents voted in favor of a measure to forbid the city from adding fluoride to the municipal water supply. With all precincts counted, about 61 percent, or 1,814, voted for Proposition 1, and 39 percent, or 1,173, voted against. Anti-fluoride activists initially came out against the proposition as it is worded on the […]

• Gloucester council sets fluoride question for ballot

  Fluoridation will be on this fall’s Gloucester election ballot. On a vote of 7-2 Tuesday night, the City Council approved allowing residents to say whether they want the city to continue adding fluoride to Gloucester’s water system. Council President Paul McGeary and Councilor-at-Large Paul Lundberg cast the two dissenting votes against placing the non-binding, referendum […]

• Fluoride on San Marcos’ November Ballot

  In April, Fluoride-Free San Marcos submitted a petition calling for voters to decide whether or not the city should continue adding fluoride to its water. “Citizens have the right to petition and change what they’d like to change in the community and have the people vote on it,” the group’s Kathleen O’Connell said. But it […]

• Judge to San Marcos: Review petition sigs, add fluoride ban amendment to ballot

  City of San Marcos voters are closer to weighing in on a charter amendment seeking to ban the city’s fluoridation of its water supply. Despite the city’s apparent commitment to disqualify a petition effort seeking this change, state Judicial District Court Judge Bruce Boyer late Friday ordered the city to review the petition signatures and, […]

• Clock ticking as San Marcos fights vote to ban fluoride in water supply

  The countdown to an Aug. 24 ballot placement deadline is on as the city of San Marcos continues action to disqualify a citizen-led petition effort seeking a spot on the Nov. 3 election ballot. At issue is if voters will be allowed to weigh in on a proposed charter amendment to ban fluoride use in […]