Posted on 09/23/2008 8:20:51 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency says there's no need to rid drinking water of a toxic rocket fuel ingredient that has fouled water supplies around the country, including in California.
The EPA's conclusion is in a draft document not yet made public but reviewed Monday by the Associated Press.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
If they take it out, your coffee will never taste the same.
The only problem with this little EPA fantasy is that it appears that there is are natural mechanisms for the formation of environmental perchlorate. At this point, we simply don’t know how much is nature-made and how much is man-made.
let me get this straight-—the EPA says that toxic chemicals from rocket fuel are ok now?
what?
There are very high levels of the industrial solvent DHMO in all of the known aquifers in the US and they are doing nothing about it.
It’s in the coffee I’m drinking right now. Nothing I can do about it.
Get past the headline, they work don’t they........
Again, I don’t like wikpedia but there is some basic information there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate
Its only major affect on people is to inhibit iodine uptake into the thyroid, which is not a problem for most people because of iodized salt. No other effects have been confirmed. There are natural sources, and fireworks and fertilizer are major non-natural sources.
Isn’t it true that most cancer cells contain DHMO? I’ve heard that DHMO, if inhaled even in small quantities, can cause death. Why in the world is the EPA allowing greedy corporations to pollute our aquifers and pristine waterways with untreated, 100% concentrated DHMO discharge?
As alsgore said, it isn’t the pollutants we need to worry about, it is the impurities in the water and air.
The solution to pollution is dilution.......
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate.
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