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Toxic Rocket Fuel Chemical In Drinking Water Can Stay
Says Government
White House and Pentagon distort the science to protect
themselves and their corporate defense contractors from
liability on water contamination
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The Environmental Protection Agency says there is no need to act
on the fact that a toxic rocket fuel ingredient, which has been
proven to lead to a loss of IQ and an increase in behavioral and
perception problems, has long been present in drinking water across
the U.S.
In a remarkable reversal of it's position, the EPA,
has ditched six years of effort into persuading the government
that perchlorate contamination poses a serious risk to the public
and should be regulated.
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, reports AP.
The toxic chemical has also been found in lettuce and other foods.
It is used by defense and aerospace contractors
in conjunction with the Pentagon in rockets and missiles.
Blogger Rick Attig at the Oregonian
succinctly explains why the EPA has suddenly decided to back down
and drop it's efforts to address perchlorate contamination:
It's obvious what's going on here. The administration
wants nothing to do with a cleanup that could cost hundreds
of millions of dollars or more. Nor does the Pentagon want to
expose its friendly defense contractors to the costs of cleaning
up the contamination they are responsible for leaving behind
to seep into drinking water in at least 35 states and the District
of Columbia.
Attig also points out that the Bush administration and the Pentagon
are preparing to fix the science to justify not regulating perchlorate
by setting the maximum contamination level at 15 times the figure
the EPA suggested in 2002.
(Article continues below)
The revelations first appeared in a Washington
Post report Sunday, after the paper received a near
final EPA "preliminary regulatory determination" document.
That document revealed that the government opted not to use a
National Academy of Science formula for determining safe levels
of perchlorate in drinking water, the model preferred by the nation's
top scientists, instead opting to use a computer model developed
by the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology.
No conflict of interest there then.
The report also revealed that the White House deleted references
to scientific studies which highlighted the link between perchlorate's
impact on thyroid function and an irreversible loss of IQ and
perception in young people from babies to those in the 20s.
The document estimates that up to 16.6 million Americans are
exposed to perchlorate at a level many scientists consider unsafe;
independent researchers, using federal and state data, put the
number at 20 million to 40 million.
Robert Zoeller, a University of Massachusetts professor who specializes
in thyroid hormone and brain development, told reporters that
the government amendments to the EPA proposal "have distorted
the science to such an extent that they can justify not regulating"
the toxic chemical.
"Infants and children will continue to be damaged, and that
damage is significant." Zoeller said.
Perchlorate is just one toxic horror readily found in the drinking
water of people all over America. We have previously reported
on studies that have found that numerous pharmaceutical
drugs, from antidepressants like prozac to sex hormones,
currently contaminate the water supplies of millions.
In addition millions more are being being mass-medicated against
their will in many water districts by way of sodium fluoride,
which is classed as a poison, being added to water supplies without
their consent. The latest
scientific reports have pointed to strong
evidence of the waste chemical's link to disorders
affecting teeth, bones, the brain and the thyroid gland, as well
as lowering IQ.
Despite these facts, the government continues to aim to have
75%
of American water fluoridated by 2010.
It is now clearly the responsibility of people everywhere to
lobby representatives at the state and local levels to implement
their own drinking water regulations in response to the combination
of negligence, cronyism and downright criminal actions of the
federal government on this matter.
Several states have already acted on their own. In 2007, California
adopted a drinking water standard of 6 parts per billion for perchlorate,
while Massachusetts has set a drinking water standard of 2 parts
per billion. Meanwhile other towns and cities across the country
have voted to remove
fluoride from their water.
Given that states like Pennsylvania
have passed laws making it illegal to remove fluoride from a community's
drinking water supply once such fluoridation is started, It is
essential that action is taken on this matter before others follow
suit.
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