EPA and the Coming Water Fluoridation Fight

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Caleb Brown

Politics, News Commentary, 424708, Libertarian, Markets, Cato, News, Immigration, Peace, Policy, Government, Defense

4.6 • 949 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The EPA routinely uses punitive regulation on local water systems, and the costs are sometimes crippling for local governments. The benefits are less than clear. The Manhattan Institute's Judge Glock makes a case for ending federal control over municipal water systems just as a new fight over water fluoridation is set to emerge.

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0:00.0	This is the Catery Daily podcast for Thursday, February 6, 2025.
0:09.0	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:10.0	The EPA has long added costs to the provision of water throughout the United States.
0:15.0	The benefits are not as easy to quantify.
0:18.0	And in a coming fight over water fluoridation,
0:22.5	will the EPA simply stand down and let states reassert control
0:24.8	over what does and doesn't go
0:26.7	into water systems? Or
0:28.6	will the same heavy regulation
0:30.4	simply be applied in a different
0:32.5	direction? Judge Glock is
0:34.6	a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
0:36.2	We spoke earlier this week.
0:40.9	Before we get to the meat of our discussion, I guess I want to get your sense of what Americans pay for water.
0:53.4	It strikes me as really, really underpriced.
0:59.5	When I pay my water bill, I, you know,
1:03.5	sometimes I just think about it's like, wow,
1:05.8	you think about all the stuff that goes into delivering water to my house through pipes and making sure that it's
1:15.0	relatively clean, it doesn't feel like I'm paying enough for it, given how much I value it.
1:24.7	Well, it is in the classic diamond water paradox.
1:28.8	One should value water very highly.
1:32.0	Part of my argument is actually that we pay far, far too much.
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