www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4767394
The Los Angeles-based group Environment California says an
industry-funded group is using "misleading research and tobacco
industry-style lobbying to influence the debate on the effects of
perchorate." Perchlorate is a rocket fuel ingredient and "a known
thyroid inhibitor" often present in water supplies near military and
manufacturing sites. The Perchlorate Study Group (PSG) "has lobbied
for maximum contaminant levels of 200 parts per billion (ppb) in
drinking water, much higher than the 24.5 ppb threshold favored by
the Environmental Protection Agency and the 6 ppb limit being
considered by the state of California," reports Fred Ortega. "More
than half of all studies on the health effects of perchlorate
published between 1995 and 2005 were funded by" PSG, which was
founded by Lockheed Martin, Aerojet and Kerr McGee, "in response to
efforts to regulate the potentially dangerous chemical." Environment
California also notes that PSG retained the PR firm APCO Worldwide,
which previously helped "Phillip Morris to fight anti-tobacco
regulations," to "help undermine the case for thorough perchlorate
cleanup."
SOURCE: DailyBulletin (Ontario, California), December 4, 2006
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