[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "EPA expected to do nothing ..."

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA expected to do nothing about perchlorate in water

Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post
September 21, 2008


The Environmental Protection Agency, under pressure from the White House 
and the Pentagon, is poised to rule as early as Monday that it will not 
set a drinking water safety standard for perchlorate, a component of 
rocket fuel that has been linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women, 
newborns and young children across the nation.

According to a near-final document obtained by the Washington Post, 
EPA's "preliminary regulatory determination" - which was extensively 
edited by White House officials - marks the final step in a six-year 
battle between career EPA scientists who advocate regulating the 
chemical and White House and Pentagon officials who oppose it. The 
document estimates that up to 16.6 million Americans are exposed to 
perchlorate at a level many scientists consider unsafe; independent 
researchers, using federal and state data, put the number at between 20 
million and 40 million.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/21/MNO8132AR6.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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