[CPEO-MEF] House perchlorate hearing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Democrats press for federal limits on rocket-fuel chemical in water supplies

By BEN GOAD and DAVID DANELSKI
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
April 25, 2007



WASHINGTON - Without a legal standard limiting the amount of rocket fuel 
in the nation's drinking water, pregnant women, infants and other people 
face significant health risks, Rep. Hilda Solis said Wednesday during a 
hearing on Capitol Hill.

Solis, D-El Monte, and other members of the House Subcommittee on 
Environment and Hazardous Materials grilled officials from the Defense 
Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and others about the 
hazards of the rocket-fuel chemical perchlorate in drinking water and foods.

Last month, Solis introduced a bill that would force the federal 
government to set a drinking-water limit for the chemical. In sufficient 
doses, perchlorate can impair thyroid function, which regulates 
metabolism and guides brain and nerve development in fetuses and babies, 
studies show.

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For the entire article, see 
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_perch26.3c8b569.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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