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Portland Voters Reject Water Fluoridation for the Fourth Time
Mayor Charlie Hales expressed his disappointment in a statement. “The measure lost despite my own ‘yes’ vote.That’s sure disappointing, but I accept the will of the voters.” Portland voters first turned down fluoridation when the process began in the 1950?s, and again during the 1960?s. It was briefly approved in 1978, however that plan was [...]
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Portland: Inspired water fight sends message
Outspent Portland fluoride opponents rallied a movement Now we know why fluoride backers pressed so hard to avoid a public vote. Anti-fluoridation forces — who raised far less money, had fewer seasoned campaign professionals and lost a one-sided battle for newspaper and other endorsements — easily overturned the Portland City Council’s decision to fluoridate the [...]
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Watertown City Council could be leaning to get rid of fluoride
Could the Watertown City Council end up voting to take fluoride out of the city’s water supply? Mayor Jeffrey E. Graham thinks so. If a vote was held now, Mr. Graham said, he believes there would be a “50-50” chance that the City Council would vote to get rid of the colorless, tasteless chemical that [...]
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Portland. Sources Say: Vote didn’t end fluoride fight
The fight over fluoridating Portland’s water isn’t finished. Voters overwhelmingly defeated Ballot Measure 26-161 in Tuesday’s election, repealing the City Council’s plan to fluoridate the water. But opponents have already filed an initiative petition for a City Charter change to prevent the council from ever doing it in the future. They temporarily stopped gathering signatures [...]
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Brooksville: Fluoridation talk of town
Brooksville Mayor Lara Bradburn said earlier this year, if the Hernando County Health Department was to present the benefits of fluoride in tap water, she’d like to hear the other side. During Tuesday evening’s water fluoridation workshop, Bradburn took matters into her own hands, and presented what she believed to be the dangers of fluoride [...]
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EPA fines Louisiana phosphoric acid manufacter to reduce hydrogen fluoride emissions
WASHINGTON –The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) announced that PCS Nitrogen has agreed to reduce air emissions from phosphoric acid production at its facility in Geismar, La. “Reducing pollution from mining and mineral processing operations is one of EPA’s national enforcement initiatives because these facilities release more [...]
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Portland. State Rep. Ben Unger: stung by fluoridation loss
After Tuesday night’s resounding defeat of Portland’s fluoridation measure, Oregon State Rep. Ben Unger (D-Hillsboro) must still be licking his wounds. As a career political operative, Unger has grown quite used to being on the winning side of campaigns. His campaign website lists these achievements, starting with his election as student body vice-president at the [...]
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Portland’s Vote Reflects Recent Scientific Findings on Fluoridation’s Risks
Portland, Oregon, the largest U.S. city without fluoridation chemicals added to its drinking water, rejected water fluoridation Tuesday in an election watched around the country. Despite being outspent by more than a 3 to 1 margin, fluoridation opponents defeated the measure with the current vote count at 60.5 to 39.4%. The latest polling showed especially [...]
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Portland fluoride: For the fourth time since 1956, Portland voters reject fluoridation
Fluoride supporters, it appeared, had everything going for them. Five Portland city commissioners had voted to add fluoride to the city water supply. Health advocacy groups, and many of the city’s communities of color, lined up behind the cause. And proponents outraised opponents 3-to-1. But none of that was enough. For the fourth time since [...]
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Pro-fluoride group concedes – Voters reject fluoridation in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. – Early returns Tuesday night showed voters rejecting fluoridating Portland’s water 60 percent to 40 percent. And just before 9 p.m., the pro-fluoride group Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland conceded it would not win its battle to get fluoride added to the city’s water. Get the latest results for this measure. But the campaign [...]
United States, Oregon