[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Response to EPA proposal

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

As EPA Moves to Regulate Perchlorate, Groups Await Pentagon Response

By ELANA SCHOR
Greenwire/New York Times
October 4, 2010

Even as they cheer U.S. EPA's first steps toward a drinking water 
standard for perchlorate, environmental and public health groups are 
warily predicting Pentagon and industry resistance to proposed limits on 
the rocket fuel chemical during a behind-the-scenes federal review process.

EPA sent an initial determination on perchlorate to reviewers at the 
White House budget office last Wednesday, more than a year after first 
seeking input on revisiting the George W. Bush administration's refusal 
to regulate its presence in drinking water. The agency's move was widely 
acknowledged as a reversal of that 2008 decision, setting the stage for 
new curbs on a contaminant that can impede thyroid functioning at high 
doses -- particularly among children and pregnant women.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/10/04/04greenwire-as-epa-moves-to-regulate-perchlorate-groups-aw-43754.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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