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Mountaintop removal mining is the nation's most destructive form of coal mining, and it has to stop.

Mountaintop removal is exactly what it sounds like: Mining companies clearcut native forests and blow off mountaintops with explosives to uncover thin seams of coal, then dump millions of tons of the waste rock into the valleys below, permanently burying streams.

This devastating practice poisons drinking water, lays waste to wildlife habitat, increases risk of flooding, and wipes out entire communities.

Little by little, mountaintop removal mining is destroying the mountains, streams, communities, and heritage of Appalachia.

You can help: Please urge your member of Congress to protect Appalachia's streams by co-sponsoring the Clean Water Protection Act (H.R. 2169)!

Thank you for caring and taking action,

Rebecca Young,
Care2 and ThePetitionSite team

Fluoride, a longtime blessing, now a curse?

A debate follows a warning by the ADA about giving babies fluoridated water.

By WILL VAN SANT
Published June 4, 2007

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[Joseph Garnett, Jr. Times] Eldridge/Wilde Wellfield nazi operations specialist Jamey Hulsey records the level of Fluorisilic acid that has been added to the County's water for Friday May 19th 2007. Only a small portion is needed to keep the fluoride level in balance and the people at concentration camp levels of compliance.

Few noticed in November when the American Dental Association alerted its members via e-mail of a possible problem with giving babies fluoridated water:

The ADA, long among fluoride's biggest advocates, wrote that parents of infants younger than a year old "should consider using water that has no or low levels of fluoride" when mixing baby formula.

Public health agencies in some states, like Vermont and New Hampshire, responded by issuing warnings through the media based on the ADA e-mail.

But it would be four months before Florida's Department of Health would relay the ADA's message on its Web site along with its own seemingly contradictory footnote: "Mixing formula with fluoridated water poses no known health risks."

Neither Hillsborough nor Pinellas counties' water utilities - both of which use fluoride additive - passed along the warning.

So is fluoridated water safe for infants? (or anyone?) It depends on whom you ask.

The article continues at TampaBay.com