A federal court in California ruled late Tuesday against the Environmental Protection Agency, ordering officials to take action over concerns about potential health risks from currently recommended levels of fluoride in the American drinking water supply.

The ruling by District Court Judge Edward Chen, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, deals a blow to public health groups in the growing debate about whether the benefits of continuing to add fluoride to the water supply outweighs its risks. //

"One thing the EPA cannot do, however, in the face of this Court's finding, is to ignore that risk," he wrote.

Michael Connett, a partner at the law firm Siri & Glimstad and the lead attorney for the groups who brought the lawsuit, said the law now requires EPA to take action to remove the risk of fluoride.

"From our vantage point, the obvious way of eliminating the risk from adding fluoride chemicals to drinking water is to stop adding them," he told CBS News.

WATCH: California's Democrat Attorney General Rob Bonta IMPLODES on CNBC's Squawk Box after his hypocrisy on the climate is exposed after he flew to New York City:

Bonta: "[Exxon] don't get any credit for advanced recycling. Turning things into jet fuel that is emitted into the air or transportation fuel--

"Squawk Box's Becky Quick: "So your point is we shouldn't have jet fuel?"

Squawk Box's Joe Kernan: "You flew here though, right?"

Bonta: "We travel."

A glaring reminder that these folks want to live by one set of rules while they force everyone else to live under a different set of rules. //

RedinOR
9 hours ago
ExxonMobil is promoting recycling - where's the problem? Diverting material from a landfill and turning it into new products. I thought that was a good thing. It sounds like he's shopping for an excuse to be indignant and to make a name for himself. Sadly for him, I think that name is "buffoon who wastes taxpayers' money".

According to Resources for the Future, 83 percent of people believe that human actions have been partly responsible for the cause of global warming, and 81 percent believe global warming will be a serious problem for the world. Funny enough, 78 percent of Americans think the government should do something about it.

And yet, the environment is never very high on the list of concerns when elections roll around.

Why, you ask? Easy. Because it's too expensive. When green energy comes for your wallet, all that concern for the climate disappears. It's too expensive. Which means that most people actually don't think it must be all that much of a threat. In fact, they see combating climate change as a greater threat to their wallet than climate change in total.

According to the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, when Americans are given the option to pay an extra monthly fee to combat it, they shut their wallets and walk away:

While the majority of Americans support climate policies, including a carbon tax on companies, when it comes to paying for these policies in the form of a monthly fee on their energy use they are much less supportive. In fact, more than half of Americans are unwilling to pay any amount of money to combat climate change. Forty-five percent are willing to pay $1—more than last year, but down from prior years of the poll. That said, a consistent minority is willing to pay a significant amount (even $100) to combat climate change. //

Mildred's Oldest Son
3 hours ago
None of these climate-cultists have been able to express what the goal is. If we did everything that they want, what would happen to the climate? Will we never have a blizzard in winter, heat wave in the summer, will everyday around the world be a balmy 75 degrees during the day and 60 degrees at night? What's the goal? The goal is total control of the economy and the government while we proles live stone-age lives and the elites live the same lives they have always lived. That's the goal

7. He's an Existential Threat to Our Democracy. The Left keeps repeating this and has been doing so for quite awhile. It's like one of their academics dropped the word "existential" in a white paper and the next day they all began using it. It sounds so intellectual! So analytical! So....like..Einsteinian! //

Ok, I think this goes beyond hyperbole and maybe they really think he will destroy "our democracy" as we know it. But what is our democracy as we know it? Well, a democracy is rule by simple majority which can lead to the tyranny of the majority as written about by Alexis de Tocqueville in his work "Democracy in America." But, we're not that. We're a constitutional republic. This means that we operate on the principle of representative government. It will be extremely unlikely that one person is going to be able to assume power like some medal-chested strongman in Uganda. Lots of checks and balances to shove out of the way first. However, if you can do something to change the representative part, say import an entirely new population of voters without the consent of the citizenry because you believe they will vote a certain way, well then you kind of have a real live existential threat to the country.

So if you're going to say that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy, I'm going to raise you and say that Biden, Harris and Mayorkas are far greater threats to our constitutional republic. And l call.

In an added — and some might say ironic — twist, per CNN, Routh's case was assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, the same U.S. District Court judge overseeing the classified documents case filed by the DOJ against Trump. (Cannon's name is present on the indictment, which may be viewed below — the preliminary proceedings were handled by Magistrate Judge Ryon McCabe.) //

GBenton
3 hours ago
That's beautiful. The dirtbag got a Trump appointed judge in Florida. If Bongino is correct and there is much more to this story in regards to Iran and assassins and the Biden/Harris clownshow, Cannon is the judge for the job, IMO.

Her handling of the Documents case was masterful, to my non-lawyer eyes.

She's the judge for the Federal charges. If DeSantis's state level charges are brought, I'm assuming they'd be handled in a state level court and not Cannon but I'd be glad to be wrong about that.

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This is a fascinating paragraph. If this is true, he's abandoned the Democrats because they're too far left, like Musk did.

Privately, Mr. Zuckerberg now considers his personal politics to be more like libertarianism or “classical liberalism,” according to people who have spoken to him recently. That includes a hostility to regulation that restricts business, an embrace of free markets and globalism and an openness to social-justice reforms — but only if it stops short of what he considers far-left progressivism. And Mr. Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have been privately aghast about what they see as a rise of antisemitism on college campuses, including at their alma mater, Harvard. //

He's going to have to go a long way for people to believe there's a true conversion happening here. Still, one would have to think that's bad news for the Democrats if he's taking his marbles and his millions and no longer playing the game.

NavyVet wildmlm
4 hours ago
I think every black man that has ever been harassed by police should take what the DoJ is doing to President Trump to heart and realize "running while Trump" is the same thing as "driving while black" when you have the likes of the unconstitutional Jack Smith and the extreme leftist Garland stinking up DoJ.