[CPEO-MEF] Waco perchlorate editorial

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: The Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in McGregor Texas is 
one of the few locations where the Defense Department is conducting 
full-scale perchlorate remediation. - LS]


Editorial: Perchlorate threat
Waco Tribune-Herald (TX)
January 25, 2005

A panel of the National Academy of Sciences has urged the Environmental 
Protection Agency to protect the public with less vigor when it comes to 
polluting the nation's waterways with perchlorate, a chemical used in 
rocket fuel and military munitions.

Waco officials, working with U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards and others, have 
fought for years to get perchlorate wastes from McGregor's old Navy 
rocket-fuel plant cleaned up to prevent this chemical from affecting the 
mental development of children, among other harmful medical effects.

The EPA should be congratulated for its a virtual no-tolerance standard 
for perchlorate pollution. It should not roll back the perchlorate 
standards.

For the original editorial, see
http://www.wacotrib.com/opin/content/news/opinion/stories/2005/01/25/20050125waceditorial_2.html
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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