Senators Want Drinking Water Standard for Perchlorate
Environment News Service, January, 2007
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who serves as the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has introduced two bills to protect people from drinking water contaminated by the toxic chemical perchlorate. One bill would direct the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, to promptly establish a health advisory, followed by a drinking water standard, for perchlorate. The standard would have to protect the health of pregnant women and children. The second bill would assure that tap water is tested for perchlorate and that the public be notified when drinking water is contaminated. Solid perchlorates are very reactive chemicals that are used mainly in fireworks, explosives, and rocket motors. People may be...
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