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• Plattsburgh: Is fluoride a choice?

  “I don’t want the government putting anything into my water, unless its scotch,” said a concerned community resident at the Plattsburgh City Common Council meeting last Thursday in regards to whether or not the city should continue to have fluoride in their water. The decision to fluoridate public water rests with the city, although it […]

• NYC Councilmember Vallone proposes legislation to warn against using fluoridated water in infant formula

  A warning about mixing New York City’s drinking water with baby formula could end up on residents’ future water bills. Councilmember Peter F. Vallone Jr. proposed the legislation last month to include the message to caution parents and caregivers about using the city’s tap water, which contains fluoride, with baby formula. The notice would suggest […]

• Cassadaga: Fighting tooth decay. Fluoride hearing draws crowd

  Thirty-one members of the public attended a public meeting meant to provide information about fluoridation of water to customers of the Cassadaga water system. … Emmy Chetkin objected to the speakers that were present. “This is lopsided and biased,” she said. She loudly objected that the board should have gotten an expert who was opposed to […]

• Brooksville Council Frowns On Fluoride

  BROOKSVILLE – An apparent consensus of the city council to stop putting fluoride in the city’s water supply is something to smile about or not, depending on whom you ask. During a budget workshop Tuesday, Councilmember Lara Bradburn recommended the city stop adding the mineral to the water supply to save money. New research shows […]

• Anti-fluoride speakers attend Cassadaga Village Board meeting

  Excerpt: Those opposed to fluoridation of the Cassadaga water system used the public comment section of the village board meeting to voice their displeasure with the idea. … Trustee Ron Dechard and Deputy Mayor Rodney Waite suggested that a postcard could be sent to all water customers asking for their anonymous input so that the […]

• 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 […]

• Retired SLU chemistry professor co-authors ‘Case Against Fluoride’ book

  CANTON — St. Lawrence University Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Paul Connett is the co-author of the book The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There, recently published by Chelsea Green Publishing. Written with James Beck and H. Spedding Micklem, […]

• Du Pont considers $178 million project

  West Louisville’s Rubbertown neighborhood — hard hit by job cuts in recent years — finally might be getting a bit of good employment news. E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co., the Wilmington, Del.-based chemical company, is considering an expansion of its long-running Freon plant at 4200 Camp Ground Road. It closed its neighboring Neoprene […]

• Fluoridation Gamble Fails the Test of Time

  • Download this article which includes graphs and cartoons – in pdf format A little history Water fluoridation began in the United States where today approximately 184 million people are currently served by fluoridated water supplies. The practice had it origins in observations made by researchers who were investigating the cause of a strange mottling […]

• China shuts solar plant after violent protests

  China shut down a solar panel factory on Monday after hundreds of angry residents staged days of violent protests over pollution, the second such incident in as many months… “Everyone is angry beyond belief. This couldn’t happen in Shanghai,” one man living next to the plant told AFP… “We have been complaining about the pollution […]