Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s potential role leading the Department of Health and Human Services would not give him carte blanche over fluoride in drinking water — although he could still influence the debate in other ways, legal experts say. Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head HHS, professed this month that Trump would sign an executive order in January advising all water utilities to remove fluoride from drinking water supplies. But while Trump later expressed tentative support for the idea, the main agency with the ability to mandate changes on water fluoridation is EPA — not the one Kennedy was chosen to lead.

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