Fluoride Critics Eye Court Challenge To EPA's Denial Of TSCA Ban Petition

March 17, 2017
Groups opposed to fluoridating drinking water are planning to sue EPA over its denial of their petition asking it to use Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authority to prohibit fluoridation, which will pose a test of the agency's novel rationale for rejecting the request as falling short of what is required under the recently revised TSCA. Michael Connett, a legal advisor to Fluoride Action Network -- one of the groups that filed the petition -- told Inside EPA in...


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