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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; jazusamo
The Empire Strikes Back:

EPA reverses Bush-era water safety standards, will regulate contaminants

By Brian Vastag
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2011; 1:08 AM

The Environmental Protection Agency reversed Bush administration drinking water policies Wednesday, announcing that it will regulate perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel, and 16 other chemicals - called volatile organic compounds - that can cause cancer at high enough doses. More...

8 posted on 02/03/2011 3:39:38 AM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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I see Mass. regulates it at 2 parts per bil, the enviro whackjobs want it at 1 ppb and the EPA doesn’t know. Yet another can of worms that is not necessary, if a state has a problem let them regulate it.

Defund the EPA!


15 posted on 02/03/2011 8:39:19 AM PST by jazusamo (His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
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