04/11/2024
Lawsuit Update:
Closing briefs have been filed by both parties in the . We’re very proud of our legal team for putting their best foot forward to protect Americans from overexposure to . Now we wait for a judgment from the court.
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“This Court is confronted with precisely the scenario that Congress had in mind when it enacted the Citizen Petition provision of TSCA: an EPA that has let “bureaucratic lethargy” undermine the appropriate enforcement of TSCA’s “vital authority” for safeguarding public health.
EPA has known since 2006 that its safe drinking water standards for fluoride are unsafe, but has failed to lower these standards in the 17 years since the National Academies of Science advised it to do so.
EPA’s bureaucratic lethargy has been evident throughout this litigation, with the Agency demonstrating time and again its unwillingness to evaluate the science on fluoride through the normal risk assessment framework it uses to protect Americans from other toxic chemicals.
In its rebuttal, EPA goes so far as to pretend that the hazard level for fluoride neurotoxicity could be as high as “infinity.” Congress understood that there is a time and place when a court order under Section 21 is needed to “force EPA’s hand.” That time is now.”
