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McKinney council revives old debate: Should fluoride still be added to water?
McKINNEY — In some ways, this latest fight over fluoridated water echoes back to the 1950s and ’60s, when adding fluoride to drinking water was either a panacea for the problems of tooth decay or a ploy to poison the American water supply. The language is far more civil now, and few call fluoridation a [...]
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McKinney Council tables vote on water fluoridation issue
McKINNEY — Residents packed into City Council chambers at McKinney City Hall on Tuesday evening. The crowd was so large, it was standing room only. An aisle separated citizens on both sides of the water fluoridation issue. McKinney conducted a public hearing to help decide whether to ask the North Texas Municipal Water District to [...]
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McKinney councilman seeks halt to fluoridation
McKINNEY –– While the Centers for Disease Control says fluoridation is one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, a McKinney councilman is leading a push to take fluoride out of the water. Councilman Ray Ricchi is trying to persuade his city and others to make the water more pure. He says [...]
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McKinney officials discuss proposal to end area water fluoridation
McKinney may soon prove to be an initiator for the North Texas Municipal Water District discontinuing fluoridation of the area’s water supply. McKinney City Councilman Ray Ricchi, using resident Pam Wenzel’s presentation, expressed a desire Monday that the city and other NTMWD member cities should consider requesting a halt in fluoridation, which has been part [...]
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Energy’s Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium
This story appears in the February 11, 2013 issue of Forbes. No tour of Uranium Energy Corp.’s processing plant in Hobson, Tex. is complete until CEO Amir Adnani pries the top off a big black steel drum and invites you to peer inside. There, filled nearly to the brim, is an orange-yellow powder that UEC [...]
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Petrobras Pasadena refinery alky unit malfunctions
An alkylation unit malfunctioned on Saturday morning releasing hydrofluoric acid at Pasadena Refining System’s 100,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Pasadena, Texas, refinery, according to a notice filed with Texas pollution regulators. Fire fighting equipment was used to suppress the hydrofluoric acid vapors, according to the notice filed with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The unit was [...]
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Madisonville: City Council mulls pulling fluoride from drinking water
Corrosion discovered at one of the City of Madisonville’s water wells sparked a discussion about fluoride levels in the City’s drinking water at a recent City Council meeting. City Council at its regular meeting May 14 discussed the possibility of ceasing to add the chemical to the City’s supply altogether or reducing the amount injected [...]
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Student government bill to install two fluoride-free drinking water fountains on Austin campus
To protect the health needs of more students, Student Government is working on a plan to implement safer drinking water. Student Government passed a bill last week to install fluoride filters on at least two drinking fountains on campus, making UT the first college in the nation to offer such a plan, said Student Government [...]
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Austin: Fluoride-Free Pressley for Council
If you thought Fluoride Free Austin would go quietly into that good night after failing to get a fluoridated-water warning placed on Austin utility bills, you were mistaken. Last Saturday, one of the group’s most outspoken members, Laura Pressley, announced that she is running for City Council, which makes her the first official challenger to [...]
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San Antonio: Added to our drinking water: a chemical ‘more toxic than lead?’
Through the lips and past the gums, and into the stomach in seconds. It’s a drink of water, plus a little hydrofluorosilicic acid: a chemical so corrosive and toxic, it carries a warning label. Since 2002, the city has been injecting it into the water supply, in an effort to stem tooth decay. “The one, [...]
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