Judge Rejects Calls To Rule In Fluoride Suit, Renewing Push For New Petition

The federal judge presiding over the novel challenge to EPA’s denial of a TSCA petition seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation is rejecting the parties’ calls to rule on the merits and renewing his plan for them to redo the petition process to consider new science on fluoride’s adverse effects since the plaintiffs’ first petitioned EPA in 2016. During an Aug. 6 status conference in the case Food & Water Watch, Inc., et al. v. EPA , Judge Edward Chen...