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  • Portland approves fluoridation; opponents vow to keep up fight

    The City Council approved a plan Wednesday to add fluoride to Portland’s water, meaning Oregon’s biggest city is no longer the largest holdout in the U.S. The ordinance calls for city water to be fluoridated by March 2014. Dental experts say fluoride is effective in fighting cavities. Opponents of public fluoridation say it’s unsafe and […]

  • Alcoa will pay $40,000 for emitting too much fluoride

    MASSENA – Alcoa announced Thursday that it will pay the state Department of Environmental Conservation $40,000 for an air-quality violation recorded earlier this year. The Massena Operations East Plant registered a reading in April of 2.66 pounds of fluoride per ton of aluminum produced, which exceeds the state minimum fluoride emission of 2.4 pounds per […]

  • Plattsburgh: City councilors will listen to fluoride opponent

    City of Plattsburgh councilors will listen to opponents of fluoridated water at a special work session today. Paul Connett of the Fluoride Action Network in St. Lawrence County will speak to councilors at 4 p.m. at City Hall. Connett’s presentation comes a week after councilors heard from local dentists and health officials in support of […]

  • Activists decry fluoride in water

    TORONTO – Canadian dental experts defended the use of fluoride in drinking water Thursday as some environmental activists claimed international studies show the chemical can cause brain damage in children and called for an end to the “60-year experiment.” Environmental groups said their experts looked at studies from India, China, Brazil and other countries documenting […]

  • 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 […]

  • Balranald: Negative case not so overwhelming

    BALRANALD Shire Council general manager argues that it wasn’t surprising that those polled had voted “no”, because the information they had been presented with was all negative. This statement borders on comical. Are you telling me that over a period of “more” than 12 months, as reported, the vigorously pro-fluoridation NSW Health, had no opportunity […]

  • Maine: Contaminants of Emerging Concern

    Many common synthetic chemicals, which were not recognized as pollutants in the past, are now being detected in aquatic ecosystems throughout the world, where they are accumulating in the tissues of wildlife and humans. Those “contaminants of emerging concern” persist in the environment along with the more traditionally monitored persistent pollutants like polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), […]

  • Sulfuryl fluoride: Dispute over methyl bromide prompts debate on fluoride

    EPA’s approval of a fluoride-based alternative to the ozone-depleting pesticide methyl bromide is triggering a broader fight over agency data justifying the use of fluoride to treat drinking water and combat pests — a dispute that could be heavily influenced by a major new scientific report expected in the coming weeks. The fight also highlights […]

  • Sulfuryl fluoride: NY approves pesticide despite unresolved health risks

    Fluoride Action Network (FAN) urges the NYS Bureau of Pesticides to rescind their recent approval of a new food fumigant pesticide, sulfuryl fluoride, because serious health risks, raised by environmental groups, remain unanswered by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In a November 28, 2005 letter to Dow AgroSciences, Maureen Serafini, Director, NYS Bureau of […]

  • Watertown: Water Super Says Fluoride Can Be OK

    Watertown water superintendent Mike Sligar is speaking out after an anti-fluoride author and chemist argued that fluoride in public water may be harmful to the public’s health. Dr. Paul Connett addressed city lawmakers last week, arguing that adding fluoride to drinking water may lower IQ scores, cause dental problems, and even cause cancer in some […]