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  • San Marcos files lawsuit to invalidate fluoridation petition

    The city of San Marcos has sued an activist group pushing for a citywide election to prohibit fluoridation of the municipal water supply. On April 2, the people behind Communities For Thriving Water – Fluoride Free San Marcos submitted 1,634 signatures in support of a city charter amendment that states, in part, “The city of […]

  • Fluoride debate heats up around the country

    Should our drinking water be fluoridated, and who makes the final call on that decision? The contentious question has been asked again as Nelson health authorities called for the city’s water to have fluoride added, while the Palmerston North council asked to have to chemical removed. Peter Dunne spoke on the issue on NewstalkZB this […]

  • Sullivan: Dept of Health offers up to $25,000 for fluoridation chemicals & equipment

    The Sullivan City Council was scheduled to meet Tuesday night, Mar. 3, with a relatively light agenda before them with no requests or petitions from residents. … The council was expected to decide on a grant application to receive funding from the Missouri Department of Health to purchase up to one year of fluoride chemicals […]

  • In Case of First Impression, Court Rules EPA Wrongly Dismissed Citizen Group’s TSCA Section 21 Petition

    On December 21, 2017, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had wrongly dismissed a Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 21 petition submitted by Food & Water Watch, Inc. and other citizens seeking the regulation of fluoridation of drinking water supplies under TSCA […]

  • Attorneys Urge More Industry Engagement On TSCA In Face Of Citizen Suits

    Attorneys are urging industry groups to more closely track and engage with environmentalists’ litigation under the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), saying initial suits could set important precedents that will determine how the new law is ultimately implemented. Herb Estreicher, an attorney and chemist with the law firm Keller and Heckman, noted during a […]

  • Fluoride Case Ruling May Open Door To More TSCA Petitions, Attorneys Say

    The recent federal court ruling allowing environmentalists to sue EPA for rejecting their petition seeking Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) rules on fluoridation could open the door to new citizen petitions to the agency under section 21 of the law seeking rules on other substances. “The fluoridation case may signal to environmental groups that the […]

  • Missouri town averts rollback of fluoridation with help from early notification law

    Law in place in Tennessee, Alabama, Texas, New York, Missouri Park Hills, Mo. — Missouri is only one of five states that has enacted an early notification law, and it came in handy when the community of Park Hills in the southeast part of the Show-Me State came close to having its community water fluoridation […]

  • Esther Sutherland: Ward 10. Calgary council candidate on fluoridation

    The next city council could be asked to return fluoride to the city’s water supply. What is your position on this? Fluoride in drinking water is necessary to keep healthy teeth and decrease cavities. PRESENTLY THE DRINKING WATER HAS TOO MUCH SEDIMENTATION AND NEEDS PROCESS OF PURIFICATION, TO PROTECT PEOPLES’ HEALTH. I am working on […]

  • The fundamentalist who created today’s conservative template

    (RNS) — When I was growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s and ‘60s, there was persistent political controversy over proposals to put fluoride in the public water supply. Among the leading opponents was Carl McIntire, pastor of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Collingswood, outside of Philadelphia, and the foremost fundamentalist of his day. […]

  • NTP Eyes Rolling Release Of Fluoride Findings Seen As Key To TSCA Suit

    Excerpts The National Toxicology Program (NTP) plans to release its long-awaited review of fluoride’s potential neurotoxic effects this fall, but also plans to publish additional information, such as a dose-response analysis, later, setting an uncertain timeline for a TSCA suit seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation that is on hold pending NTP’s findings. “NTP is […]