[CPEO-MEF] Inland Empire perchlorate conference

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical cleanup urged

PERCHLORATE: Officials at an Inland forum say tough rules are needed to 
keep it out of tap water.

By DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
January 22, 2005

Inland environmentalists and elected officials joined forces Saturday in 
calls for cleanups and strict health standards for a rocket-fuel 
chemical that has polluted Inland drinking water supplies.

They urged the audience of more than 70 people at a Fontana City Hall 
forum to write to federal officials and demand cleanup funds and tough 
rules to keep the unregulated chemical out of tap water.

"I'm not a scientist," state Sen. Nell Soto, D-Pomona, told the 
audience, "but I'm a mother, a grandmother and a great-grandmother and 
we should protect our children."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_perch23.58042.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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