Judge Orders EPA To Regulate Drinking Water Fluoridation Under TSCA

In a first-of-its-kind decision, a federal district judge has overturned EPA’s denial of anti-fluoridation groups’ TSCA petition seeking limits on the practice, finding that health authorities’ fluoride targets for drinking water create an “unreasonable risk” of IQ loss in children that under the toxics law requires “a regulatory response.” However, the Sept. 24 ruling in Food & Water Watch (FWW), et al, v. EPA leaves the details of that response up to the agency, while cautioning that the Toxic...