Environmentalists and EPA are battling over whether a judge should delay a first-time Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) trial, slated to begin early next year, to determine whether the agency should ban fluoride, with the plaintiffs charging that EPA’s request to delay the trial would “derail the entire schedule of this case.”
The dueling over the trial marks the latest steps in the landmark TSCA suit, Food & Water Watch Inc., et al, v. EPA, where environmentalists and public health groups are seeking to force EPA to grant their petition seeking to ban the practice of treating drinking water with fluoride…
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Documents cited in this article
- 9-23-2019, TSCA lawsuit: Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Defendants’ Motion to enlarge time for limited expert discovery
- 9-19-19, TSCA lawsuit: Defendants’ Motion to enlarge time for limited expert discovery
- 2017, National Toxicology Program (NTP), Protocol for Systematic Review of Effects of Fluoride Exposure on Neurodevelopment