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January 14, 2005
Business Week: Perchlorate: Out of the Hot Water?
Apparently the Envrironmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) disagree as to how much perchorate, a primary ingredient of rocket fuel, found in the drinking water of 35 states, is healthy for human consumption.
According to a report in Business Week, NAS has just recommended that an amount 23 times the amount recommended by the EPA, has been announced. What this has done is to put on hold millions of dollars in costs to be borne by mostly defense industries which would have to be spent cleaning up water supplies.
While final determination has not been made as yet as to what exact level of perchrorate will be agreed is safe, all eyes now turn to the EPA to see what water level it will set.
Well, the EPA drops the ball again. What else is new?
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 14, 2005 09:11 PM
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