Fluoride Plaintiffs Say EPA Applying ‘Secret Science’ Policy To TSCA Petition

August 3, 2020
Plaintiffs suing EPA over its denial of their TSCA petition seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation are charging that the agency is trying to apply its controversial proposed rule barring the use of scientific studies from its consideration if the underlying data are not publicly available. “[On]e of EPA’s threshold conditions for considering a new petition is that the Plaintiffs must produce the ‘raw data for the key studies upon which Plaintiffs’ rely,’” plaintiffs write in an Aug. 3 statement...


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