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Bush to exempt toxin from federal regulation
Daily Kos —
More departing gifts from the Bush administration as it continues its long goodbye: Feds Set to Eliminate Water Regulations for Neurotoxin By Brandon Keim Among the Bush administration's final environmental legacies will be a decision to exempt perchlorate, a known neurotoxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans, from federal regulation. The ruling, proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency in October, was supposed to be formalized on Monday. That deadline passed, but the ...
Bush: The measure of the man
Newshoggers.com —
... - Exempt perchlorate, a known neurotoxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans, from federal regulation. ...
8 years of puppies and unicorns are almost at an end
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Bush to exempt toxin from federal regulation: Feds are set to eliminate water regs for perchlorate, a known neurotoxin found at unsafe levels in the drinking water of millions of Americans. ...
MSNBC's Brewer: Shouldn't Pres. Bush Be Ashamed of EPA Ruling?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... of its ruling, or had she only looked at articles like this one from an environmental activist group, "subtly" featuring a huge photo of a baby drinking from its bottle? ...
Bush's exit strategy: Do as much damage on the way out as possible
Crooks and Liars —
... Protection Agency conducted extensive review of scientific data related to the health effects of exposure to perchlorate from drinking water and other sources and found that in more than 99 percent of public drinking water systems, perchlorate was not at levels of public health concern. Therefore, based on the Safe Water Drinking Act criteria, the agency determined there is not a "meaningful opportunity for health risk reduction" through a national drinking water regulation. But as Brandon Keim at Wired reports, this is a classic skewing of methodology to achieve a ...
