‘Unreasonable risk’: Federal judge’s ruling to reduce fluoride levels in drinking water despite ‘scarce’ research may help fuel RFK Jr.’s ‘wild’ crusade

Background: The Dublin San Ramon Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility in Pleasanton, Calif. on Tues. September 22, 2015 (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP). Inset: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (X/RFK Jr.).

Background: The Dublin San Ramon Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility in Pleasanton, Calif. on Tues. September 22, 2015 (Michael Macor/San Francisco Chronicle via AP). Inset: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (X/RFK Jr.).

Donald Trump winning the presidency this week has opened a door for erstwhile presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to try and get fluoride out of the nation’s water systems — with there being plans to let him “go wild” with ideas and regulations, according to the president-elect, despite there being “scarce” research to suggest he should, according to scientists. But the bigger boost of confidence may have actually come weeks earlier in federal court.

On Sept. 24, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of strengthening fluoride regulations in drinking water, siding with a group of advocacy and environmental groups that argued in favor of reducing the current levels of fluoride in our water systems.

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