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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has decided there’s no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled public water supplies around the country.
EPA reached the conclusion in a draft regulatory document not yet made public but reviewed Monday by The Associated Press.
The ingredient, perchlorate, has been found in at least 395 sites in 35 states at levels high enough to interfere with thyroid function and pose developmental health risks, particularly for babies and fetuses, according to some scientists.
The EPA document says that mandating a clean-up level for perchlorate would not result in a “meaningful opportunity for health risk reduction for persons served by public-water systems.”
The conclusion, which caps years of dispute over the issue, was denounced by Democrats and environmentalists who accused EPA of caving to pressure from the Pentagon.
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Maybe the EPA has finally learned to operate like the TCEQ and the RRC in Texas!! Could it be?
Ah, just what we need! More crap in our water! It’s just staggering how the KKKons can’t get it that this country was founded with the concept of the COMMONS in mind; there are just some things that you either preserve for ALL of us (yes repukes, that includes your dumb asses too!) like, say, DRINKING WATER!!!!!!!!!
But no, profit over people is the only thing they understand. Jackasses! I hope the drinking water for all repiggyliCONS has at least 1/10th of it donkey urine!!!
All four women in my immediate family who lvied a few miles from the Dallas Naval Air Station, TXU, and NWIRP/Vought at Mountain Creek Lake have NO thyroid function. We did, but no more.