[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate politics

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The Politics of Rocket Fuel Pollution
Environment California
December 1, 2006

For decades, tobacco companies have ignored evidence and distorted 
science in order to mislead the public and decision-makers, despite 
clear evidence that tobacco smoking is hazardous to public health. Now 
companies facing government action over rocket fuel pollution are 
deploying similar tactics. The main ingredient in solid rocket fuel - 
perchlorate - pollutes drinking water sources in more than 20 states. 
Tests also reveal perchlorate in grocery store food supplies and in 
breast milk from women across the country. A 2005 study by researchers 
at Texas Tech University suggests that breastfed babies ingest levels of 
perchlorate that exceed the 'safe dose' recently established by the 
National Academy of Science - putting children at risk for development 
damage. California state agencies have discovered perchlorate in more 
than 400 water sources since 1997, including the Colorado River and 
hundreds of municipal wells.

For the executive summary of this new report, see
http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/reports/clean-water/clean-water-program-reports/the-politics-of-rocket-fuel-pollution

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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