Tell The EPA We Can't Allow Chemical Companies To Pollute Our Water

Tell The EPA We Can't Allow Chemical Companies To Pollute Our Water

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Last year, we took action to prevent the Bush administration from ignoring the fact that a chemical in rocket fuel is polluting our water.&nbsp;<br /><br />Drinking water in 35 states and our nation's capital contains perchlorate, an ingredient in rocket fuel, at levels that could be harmful to human health.<br /><br />The EPA is still only considering making a national primary drinking rule for perchlorate. They are now seeking "comments on approaches for evaluating whether there is a meaningful opportunity for human health risk reduction of perchlorate." <br /><br />Well, by EPA's most conservative estimates, the number of people served by water contaminated with high levels of perchlorate ranges between 16.8 and 53.4 million people. <br /><br />Of course establishing a rule on perchlorate is an opportunity reduce human health risk! <br /><br />Scientists say perchlorate impacts the thyroid's production of hormones that are important for fetal neural development.<br /><br />Rather than safeguarding your health, your family's, and your community's, the EPA lets chemical companies off the hook for cleaning up the rocket fuel mess.<br /><br />How many millions of people are enough to make EPA act? <a href='http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23806'>Write now to protect your water from this contaminant.</a><br />&nbsp;<br />Source: Food &amp; Water Watch

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