2018 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 22:17:23 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "Science Experts Tell EPA to Regulate Toxic Perchlorate"
 
Science Experts Tell EPA to Regulate Toxic Perchlorate

Jennifer Sass 
NRDC
April 5, 2018 

One of the many travesties in the failure to properly protect drinking water in the United States is EPA’s decades-long inability to set an enforceable drinking standard for perchlorate, a chemical that harms the thyroid – critical for normal growth and development – and that contaminates drinking water systems serving over 17 million people in the U.S.  EPA determined back in 2011 that perchlorate meets the criteria for regulation as a contaminant under the Safe Drinking Water Act. EPA concluded that, “perchlorate may have an adverse effect on the health of persons and is known to occur in public drinking water systems with a frequency and at levels that present a public health concern.” (EPA 2011).

This isn’t just a Trump/Pruitt problem. NRDC has been pressing EPA for years, through Republican and Democratic administrations to act. Unfortunately, EPA has long been under strong pressure from industry and the Pentagon and its contractors to avoid setting a strong drinking water standard for perchlorate (DOD is a major source of perchlorate pollution due to its use in rocket fuel and munitions at its facilities across the country). We sued the Agency in 2016 to set a health-protective drinking water limit for this toxic chemical (NRDC Feb 2016).

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For the entire blog, see
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/jennifer-sass/science-experts-tell-epa-regulate-toxic-perchlorate

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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