[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: The debate over regulation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New Findings Spur EPA to Rethink Perchlorate Regulation


By SARA GOODMAN
New York Times Greenwire
August 6, 2009

Perchlorate seems to be everywhere these days. It is in a lot of water 
supplies, in fruits and vegetables, in Chile's Atacama Desert, and even 
on Mars.

That is good and bad news for the Defense Department and military 
contractors battling accusations that they have polluted groundwater 
with perchlorate, a primary component of rocket fuel.

The fact that perchlorate -- a salt comprising a chlorine atom and four 
oxygen atoms -- occurs naturally makes it difficult to draw simple 
conclusions about whether to regulate it or remove it from the 
drinking-water supplies of at least 35 states and the District of Columbia.

On the other hand, that perchlorate is more widespread than previously 
thought suggests to proponents of federal water regulations that there 
is all the more need to regulate its presence in drinking water.

...

For the entire article, see 
http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/july/CDD0960_tortoise_translocation_EA.html 


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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