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Judge Suggests New TSCA Section 21 Petition Be Filed Regarding Fluoride in Drinking Water
On July 31, 2020, the plaintiffs and EPA filed a joint case management statement in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California case seeking a rulemaking under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to prohibit the addition of fluoridation chemicals to drinking water supplies. Food & Water Watch, Inc. v. […]
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INSIGHT: Fluoridation Case Challenges EPA Chemical Evaluation
A lawsuit in federal court challenging fluoridation is one of the first cases under the TSCA’s citizen-suit provision to reach trial, and may embolden similar groups’ efforts to compel the EPA to reevaluate chemicals it has long-determined safe, Hanson Bridgett LLP attorneys Davina Pujari and Cole Benbow write. A trial in federal court breaks new […]
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Judge Orders Fluoride Opponents to Refile Petition with the EPA in Historic #FluorideTrial
The judge in the ongoing fluoride trial has decided to post-pone a ruling and ordered the plaintiffs to file a new petition with the EPA. On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen once again delayed a ruling in the case between the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) and the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Judge Chen […]
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Judge Rejects Calls To Rule In Fluoride Suit, Renewing Push For New Petition
Excerpts: … During an Aug. 6 status conference in the case Food & Water Watch, Inc., et al. v. EPA, Judge Edward Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California cited a series of benefits from his plan requiring the plaintiffs to file a new petition and EPA to consider it, […]
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EPA Denies Application Of ‘Secret Science’ Approach To TSCA Fluoride Suit
EPA is rejecting plaintiffs’ allegations that it is trying to apply its controversial proposal barring the use of scientific studies from its consideration if the underlying data are not publicly available to the pending litigation over the agency’s denial of a TSCA citizen’s petition seeking regulation of fluoride. In an Aug. 4 brief , Justice […]
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Fluoride Plaintiffs Say EPA Applying ‘Secret Science’ Policy To TSCA Petition
Plaintiffs suing EPA over its denial of their TSCA petition seeking to ban drinking water fluoridation are charging that the agency is trying to apply its controversial proposed rule barring the use of scientific studies from its consideration if the underlying data are not publicly available. “[On]e of EPA’s threshold conditions for considering a new […]
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Landmark Trial on Water Fluoridation & EPA on Pause Until August 6.
Search the for the word “fluoride” or “fluoridation” at every broadcast-news-station Web site and the two (for now) daily-newspaper Web sites in the Quad Cities and you will not find one mention of a recent landmark trial over the controversial practice of medicating local water supplies with fluoride under the auspices of topically treating one’s […]
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Titchener welcomes US fluoride decision
Waipa Anti-fluoride campaigner Kane Titchener is hailing a court ruling in the United States. The San Francisco Federal Court has ordered the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take a second look at a petition to require the EPA to complete a proper risk assessment of fluoride, which it has failed to do. Mr Titchener, […]
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Ruling on fluoridated water case postponed
The ruling on an ongoing legal battle regarding community water fluoridation has been postponed as new data has been published this year. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen in the Northern District of California has postponed further proceedings in the case of whether or not the level of fluoride in community drinking water brings risk to public health. Chen delayed […]
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TSCA EPA Water Fluoridation Case Judgement Deferred by The Court
BACKGROUND On Nov. 22, 2016, a Citizens’ Petition was presented to the Environmental Protection Abency (EPA) under Section 21 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The Petition requested EPA “to protect the public and susceptible subpopulations from the neurotoxic risks of fluoride by banning the addition of fluoridation chemicals to water,” excercizing its authority […]
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