Posted on 12/24/2010 1:21:04 PM PST by epithermal
Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, briefed a bipartisan group of senators Tuesday after a report found that Washington and other cities have elevated levels of chromium-6, a probable carcinogen, in their public drinking water.
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) met with Jackson in Durbin’s office on the third floor of the Capitol Tuesday afternoon.
They convened the meeting after the Environmental Working Group, an organization headquartered in Washington, released a report this week that found chromium-6 in the tap water of 31 cities across the country.
“Administrator Jackson assured us that the EPA is taking the report seriously and is in the process of evaluating at what level chromium-6 should be regulated,” Durbin said in a statement after the meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Here is an excellent report on the EWG refusal to even share their data with the city of Tallahassee:
"Jamie Shakar, the city’s manager for water quality, said the city sent an e-mail requesting to review the EWG’s laboratory reports. On Wednesday evening, Shakar said the EWG responded, denying the request.
“I don’t understand why they would put the information out there and not share the information with us so that we can share some dialogue about it,” he added. “We would like to do a scientific review.”
The EWG, a Washington D.C.-based research and advocacy group, collected one sample of Tallahassee’s drinking water, Shakar said and referred to that as “tragic.” EWG press associate Leeann Brown said the group just wanted to get a “snapshot” with the samples that were collected from numerous cities in the spring. “We only took one sample to get a snapshot to see if there were grounds for further investigation,” she said. “We weren’t trying to do a thorough investigation.”
Shakar said the city has collected 50 samples this year testing for total chromium in the water — something the city is only required to do every three years. Only 1.0 parts per billion were found. The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection requirement is to be under 100 ppb, he added."
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20101223/BREAKINGNEWS/101223003/Update--City-responds-to-contaminated-water-allegations
Oh, I forgot, Congress inhabits the area
The Environmental Working Group are the same people who gave us Alar and other classics.
Note from the article that they appear to be working hand-in-glove with Lisa Jackson’s EPA.
Stage II will be a celebrity TV ad about the second coming of Chromium 6. Maybe Erin Brokovich herself will weigh in, but only if there are big bucks in it for her personally, as when she sued the Beverly Hills school system (!) for having oil derricks on their property.
Did she ever actually get around to getting a law degree, I wonder?
Is Kool-Aid a carcinogen?
So this is bipartisan? I always wondered what that meant.
Why am I not surprised to see Kirk’s name along with the other liberals?
I can see no alternative to shutting down Washington DC, and all activities contained therein, until the problem has been completely and entirely fixed. Not until the concentration is below 1 part per trillion can people resume work, even if it take years, or decades, or centuries.
1 ppb!!!!!
I’ve operated a public water system for 30 years. This is pure bull cr@p!
Here’s my post from a similar thread a few days ago, about California chrome;
“Last year, California took the first step in limiting the amount of hexavalent chromium in drinking water by proposing a “public health goal” for safe levels of 0.06 parts per billion. If California does set a limit, it would be the first in the nation.”
Let’s see. Do I have this right?
That’s 6 one hundredths of 1 part per billion. Is this like the “pharma in the water” deal? Ya know,,, where you would have to drink 3 olympic-sized swimming pools full of water per day to get a standard daily dose?
“In a written statement, the group’s senior director, Ann Mason, said that “even the most sophisticated analytical methods used by EPA are not able to detect the extremely low levels that California wants to establish.”
So they can’t even test for that miniscule amount?
“Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said that water utilities across the country are resistant to the regulation.”
Well, I can understand that. It may be possible to remove 99,999,999 parts per billion, but that one last part per billion? The cost could be amazing!
An EPA official once told me, back in ‘82, that the EPA would have no problem with the bill for water being $1,500 per year for an average family of four. Back in ‘82. Wonder what they think is acceptable now?
Oh well! I’m off to the water plant I’ve operated for 30 years. Gotta do my daily routine, and add some Chromium to the water.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken on climate change. See also, Feynmann, Richard on “Cargo Cult Science”.
Is it a coincidence that recently, a report came out finding that there was NO cancer cluster in the town featured in “Erin Brockovich”? So the liberals in the MSM decided to push this story of how this chromium is found in drinking water everywhere now?
In other words, did they have to revive the lost credibility of the real Erin Brockovich and her crusading???? So now we find that many places have the chromium, not just that one town in California?????
ROFL....I’m WITH YOU....shut the city down....make all the elected officials and their staff work out of their home states....and use the computer for votes!
Gonna hafta relocate ever one in DC to where ever they chooses to lif. An gi’ em reparations foe the fact that them carci-whatever thangs is goin kill em moe sooner than gittin shot daid in DC.
Only goin cost 3.5 trillion dollah oh so. President obama say iss OK to pay dat beel rat now. Some kinda presdential decree.
I goin tellum to move my fambly (aw twelve of us) to Hawaii an git me some nice clean warter to drank.
LET THEM DRINK BOTTLED WATER, which our esteamed senators already do between hard liquor drinks...
Alar - grrrrrrr!!! All the more reason to burn EWG at the stake. That hoax cost farmers in the state of Washington millions.
For those who don’t know the Alar story, here is a good synopsis:
http://www.heartland.org/policybot/results/20647/Alar_The_Great_Apple_Scare.html
And that bitch Meryl Streep fed the frenzy. She is hated to this day in Washington state.
...and the entire DC region should be demolished, scraped flat, torched and the earth salted. We don’t ever want it rising again.
I have to ask the stupid questions here...
Why can’t we sue the EWG?
For what? Failure to follow Environmental Sample Handling and Protocols.
If they are not willing to share their samples, data, and sampling techniques used ...IT IS JUNK SCIENCE!
Wow... there really IS something in the water in DC.
But all the flouride in our water, toothpaste, and who knows what else is perfectly OK ???
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