Judge Weighs TSCA Risk ‘Margin’ On First Day Of Fluoride Petition Trial

Plaintiffs in the long-running suit seeking to force EPA to ban drinking water fluoridation under TSCA used the first day of trial to argue that the agency used much more demanding standards to consider fluoride toxicity than it has for other chemicals subject to the law, drawing questions from the presiding federal judge on how it performed those analyses. The two sides in Food and Water Watch, et al., v. EPA gave their opening statements and began hearing from...