GREENWIRE | EPA is asking a federal appellate panel to reconsider a lower court’s order for regulations on fluoride in drinking water under the nation’s toxics law.
The appeal comes just days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration. Robert F Kennedy Jr., the incoming president’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, famously said in a post on X in November that “on January 20, the Trump White House will advise all U.S. water systems to remove fluoride from public water.”
The notice of appeal, filed Friday morning on EPA’s behalf by Justice Department attorney Brandon Adkins with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also comes just days before the government’s Tuesday deadline to appeal. At the center is a district judge’s assertion that federally recommended fluoride levels in drinking water pose “an unreasonable risk of reduced IQ in children.
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