Arsenic Lawsuit Filed.(by Natural Resources Defense Council)(Brief Article)

National Driller, August, 2001

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Court of Appeals, challenging the Bush administration's suspension of the new arsenic-in-tap-water standard. The NRDC claims the Bush administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is causing harm to millions of Americans by suspending the arsenic rule set by the Clinton administration in January.

The arsenic standard the EPA issued in January would have lowered the maximum allowable level of arsenic in tap water from the current standard of 50 parts per billion (ppb) that was established in 1942, to 10 ppb.