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Should fluoride be in your drinking water? That's a big question buzzing around the state right now. Gov. Kevin Stitt's 'Make ...
It has been added to municipal water for decades, but a federal judge in California has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to further regulate fluoride because high levels could ...
Environmental nonprofit Food & Water Watch and a handful of anti-fluoride groups, like the Fluoride Action Network, have been in court for nearly a decade after the EPA denied their petition ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reconsider the health impacts of fluoride in drinking water — taking what could be an initial step toward new national limits or a ban on the ...
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to further regulate fluoride in drinking water because high levels could pose a risk to the intellectual development of children.
A U.S. District Court judge in California said earlier this week that adding fluoride to drinking water presents an “unreasonable risk” to young children, and especially babies. That ruling ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will reconsider the health impacts of fluoride in drinking water — taking what could be an initial step toward new national limits or a ban on the ...
The judge's ruling stems from a lawsuit first brought by the anti-fluoride groups under a 2016 chemical safety law that allowed them to challenge the EPA in court after the agency denied their ...
EPA in 1986 under the Safe Drinking Water Act capped fluoride concentrations in drinking water at 4 milligrams per liter, and the agency says levels above 2 milligrams per liter should come with a ...
The EPA, a defendant in the 2017 lawsuit headed by Food & Water Watch, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group, argued that it wasn't clear what impact fluoride exposure might have at lower levels.
In November 2016, the Fluoride Action Network, an activist group, and others filed a petition asking the EPA to regulate the addition of fluoride to drinking water. When the EPA refused, the ...