[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Corrected Greenwire story

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Defense Contractors Lobby to Block Perchlorate Advisory

By SARA GOODMAN
Greenwire/New York Times
June 22, 2009

Correction appended

The defense and aerospace industries are lobbying the White House to 
prevent U.S. EPA from tightening a health advisory for a rocket-fuel 
chemical, perchlorate.

...

Shannon Cunniff, director of chemical and material risk management for 
DOD, said the Pentagon was asked to attend the meeting, along with other 
federal agencies, to discuss the issues surrounding perchlorate 
contamination, and was not lobbying for any particular action from EPA. 
Furthermore, she added, the Pentagon does not agree that advancing a 
decision would have an adverse impact.

...

Correction

The Defense Department hasn't lobbied the White House on a possible U.S. 
EPA tightening of a health advisory for perchlorate. The Pentagon was 
invited, along with other federal agencies, to attend a meeting attended 
by mostly defense and aerospace industry groups, as well as other 
affected industries, to express their views on the issue. A story in 
Monday's Greenwire gave incorrect information.

...

For the entire revised article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/06/22/22greenwire-dod-defense-contractors-lobby-to-block-perchlo-16279.html?scp=1&sq=Perchlorate%20OMB&st=cse

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