Rocket (Fuel) Man
In the Senate, Richard Bryan worked to safeguard Nevada's water supply. Then he became a lobbyist for the chemical firms that contaminated it.
A decade ago, Nevada's congressional delegation won a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to fund drinking-water improvements in rural areas of the state. The aim was to ensure the water supply in these locales was free of dangerous levels of various chemicals, including the rocket-fuel additive perchlorate, a potential health hazard. The amount of money was modest—$12.5 million—but that didn't stop the state's federal legislators from crowing about their accomplishment. Richard Bryan, one of Nevada's two Democratic senators at the time, proudly declared that Nevadans had a right "to safe, clean drinking water."
Ten years later, Bryan was a lobbyist for manufacturers of perchlorate.
How this happened is yet another tale of Washington's ever-spinning revolving door, which can turn politicians who pushed environmental initiatives into influence-peddlers for polluters. And in the new Washington governed by President Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress, K Streeters with Democratic credentials are poised to exploit their party ties more than ever. As they work their connections on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, these administration-friendly lobbyists will pose a challenge to the new president, who vowed to change the pay-to-play ways of the nation's capital.
For years, perchlorate, a primary ingredient in propellant for rockets and missiles, has been the subject of fierce regulatory wrestling in Washington. After leaking from military bases and manufacturing sites, the substance has been found in tap water, groundwater, surface water, and soil across the nation. Up to 40 million Americans may have perchlorate in their water supplies, according to one analysis of EPA data. The chemical has been detected in lettuce, milk, spinach, and human breast milk. Health studies indicate that it can affect the thyroid, potentially causing long-lasting neurological impairments for infants. For this reason, environmental and clean-water advocates have been urging federal action for years.
In 2007 and 2008, the fight in Washington over perchlorate appeared to be coming to a head. With the Defense Department and past and current perchlorate manufacturers trying to stave off controls on the chemical, the EPA was considering setting drinking-water standards for the substance, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) were pushing bills that would force the EPA to do so.
To fight back, four perchlorate firms hired a bevy of lobbyists, including Bryan, who had left the Senate in 2001 to become one. Bryan's mission, according to Senate disclosure forms, was to sway rule making at the EPA in his clients' favor and to do the same regarding the pending legislation in Congress. In 2007 and 2008, he and a colleague at the Nevada-based law firm of Lionel, Sawyer & Collins, pulled in at least $200,0000 in lobbying fees for their work.
Bryan declined to be interviewed about how he assisted the perchlorate crowd. But whatever he and his comrades did, they apparently did it well. Legislation was blocked, and the EPA, in one of the Bush administration's so-called midnight regulatory decisions, opted not to issue any federal standard safeguarding drinking water from perchlorate contamination.
Bryan entered the fray late in the long-running battle. For decades prior to passage of clean-water laws in the 1970s, defense firms routinely dumped perchlorate, used in rocket fuel to generate an intense burn, into the ground and waterways. The substance has tainted water supplies in at least 26 states, including New York, Texas, California, and Nevada, according to the EPA. (In 1976, Aerojet, which operated a missile plant in California, was pouring its toxic waste into unlined pits in the ground.) In 2002, the EPA issued a draft assessment noting that perchlorate was dangerous to humans, especially infants, and suggested a safe standard would be one part per billion for drinking water. (At the time, the Colorado River, a major source of drinking water, contained about seven parts per billion.) By this point, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Pentagon and several defense contractors had spent $30 million on research designed to persuade the EPA that perchlorate posed no significant risks at low levels of exposure. Neither the Defense Department nor the contractors wanted to be on the hook for what could be several billions of dollars in cleanup costs.
During the George W. Bush years, perchlorate became yet another one of those contentious environmental fights. You know the drill: Government scientists say this, industry says that, and guess which way the White House leans? With the Pentagon pushing for no action, the Bush administration's Office of Management and Budget intervened to slow down the EPA's regulatory process, and the EPA slapped a gag order on its scientists and employees, ordering them not to discuss perchlorate publicly. Partly in response to this clash between the EPA and the Defense Department, Bush's OMB set up a new procedure that, according to a General Accountability Office report [PDF], allowed the White House and the Pentagon to regularly hinder the EPA's overall effort to assess chemical risks.
A 2005 National Academy of Sciences report [PDF] said that it was safe for people to consume drinking water containing up to 24.5 parts per billion of perchlorate. (This was greater than the EPA proposal, but much less than the Pentagon's suggested standard of 200 parts per billion.) Subsequently, the EPA recommended the 24.5 ppb standard. But it encountered harsh criticism from scientists and environmentalists who argued that this level did not take into account the impact of such a dose on infants. Still, there was no actual federal regulation, and the EPA continued to work on determining whether issuing one was necessary. Meanwhile, the Pentagon deferred any extensive cleanup program. ("We heard of an Air Force base that wanted to test for perchlorate," says a congressional aide following the issue. "They thought they had it in their groundwater. The DOD said, 'Don't test.'") As the feds did nothing, states set their own limits; California proposed a six parts per billion rule, and Massachusetts established a more stringent two ppb standard.
In early 2007, with the EPA slowed down, Boxer and Solis each introduced legislation that would compel the agency to impose a strict perchlorate drinking-water standard. In doing so, they went up against the Pentagon and a band of chemical industry lobbyists. At the time, Bryan and his former-legislator director, Brent Heberlee (who years earlier had also become a lobbyist), had been retained by Aerojet, Alliant Techsystems (an aerospace conglomerate that has Utah facilities linked to perchlorate contamination), American Pacific Corporation (a major producer of perchlorate for space and defense programs), and Tronox (a chemical company spun off from Kerr-McGee, which had owned a plant in Nevada associated with a plume of perchlorate-contaminated groundwater). Their fee, according to congressional lobbying records, was about $10,000 a quarter. Two years prior, Bryan and Heberlee had been hired by Kerr-McGee to work on perchlorate issues.
Almost 20 years before going to work for the manufacturers, Bryan had become familiar with one hazard of the compound. In 1988, when he was governor of Nevada, a factory 10 miles outside of Las Vegas that produced perchlorate exploded in a tremendous blast that left a 400-foot crater and flattened an industrial park. Two people were killed and three hundred were injured. A marshmallow factory next door was destroyed in the blaze. Noting that the destruction could easily have been worse, Bryan declared, "We may have a miracle on our hands here." Later that year, Bryan was elected to the Senate, and one of his first acts in Washington was to join with his fellow Nevada senator and close friend Harry Reid to introduce legislation to use federal land in southern Nevada for the development of an industrial facility where perchlorate could be manufactured away from populated areas.
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Why are you
Why are you complaining?
Lobbying, special interest, corruption is what government is all about.
Note to progressives; to help the poor privately-funded charities exist. To educate children privately-funded schools exist. Of course, with so much regulation and taxes and unfair competition from government's entities, it is not so easy to go down the free road.
As far as water is concerned, government has no business there.
"Sociopath" is defined as "a
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"Sociopath" is defined as "a person with a personality disorder manifesting itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behavior and a lack of conscience." In other words, nothing they do keeps them from sleeping. One cannot shame a sociopath either so that's off the board. Most of our elected ones today, I won't call them politicians, demonstrate gross sociopathic behavior and here we are. It rather reminds me of a schoolyard gang. They stick together to pick on we smaller kids but turn yellow when trapped alone without their buddies. And so one must get them alone as in confronting one's local officials in person whenever and wherever possible -- for all the good it might do. We're doomed if fear.
Edantes Rugged individual
Edantes Rugged individual that's what you are right? How about we give you a pass on paying any taxes at all and you can go down that "freedom road." Of course being a free individual such as yourself you will not use all those roads and bridges built by those impediments to the freedom road, taxes and regulations. Some other things are electricity, many grids were built by tax dollars if you live in a rural area they were built by another failed stimulus package called The New Deal. Water and sewage get your own. Schools you won't like your money helping some other kid, hire your own teachers. Police and fire protection? Do it yourself or better yet hire your own guards and firemen.Insurance depends on many people paying premiums, you will not want to participate in this lest your money helps someone else so no insurance for you. This is just a partial list I could come up with more but this post is too long as it is. Anti tax, anti government,all for me me for none people should be allowed to live according to the principles they believe in. Just don't partake of the benefits that come from taxes and a cooperative society.
Ridiculous !
Your argument is ridiculous. This has nothing to do with privatized industry. I think you missed the point of the article by a wide margin. Where water is concerned, we all have business there. And, as a member of the population of the United States, you would expect to have those you elect protect you from those who do not have your best interest at heart. I'm not an investor in perchlorate and therefore I do not have a financial interest in it. Even if I did, I would not want people I pay to poison my water supply. JCR - you may not hold much stock in science or evidence and if that is the case, you are a fool. End of story. Perchlorate is a TOXIC SUBSTANCE. Government regulation of TOXIC SUBSTANCES goes right up there with government regulation of PLUTONIUM DEPOSITS. Or maybe we should privatize that industry as well?
Note to JCR
Leaving the care for the poor solely to charities has been tried before. Didn't work out so well. It contributed to creating the Great Depression and is a big reason the New Deal was created and passed.
I don't know about you, but I'm not really looking to rewind 70 or 80 years into the past, nor do I want to live in a third world country where it's every man, woman and child for themselves. You should set higher ideals, goals and standards for America and the human race in general.
Objectivism
JCR is an adherent (possibly unwittingly) to the 'philosophy' of Objectivism, which was supposedly established by Ayn Rand. It's really nothing more that an illustration of Galbreath's insightful quote:
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
If you ever find you've overeaten and need a little bulimic relief, check out a few Objectivist web-sites, 'blogs, etc. Guaranteed to make any person with a conscience hurl in 30 seconds or less...
Malignant behavior in Congress
I, for one, have had just about enough of these tales of congressional criminality that I am prepared to experience. I do not believe our goverment will ever willingly purge itself of all its disfunctional elements because money, rather than knowledge, is power. I wonder why the citizens have not yet begun public protests about this abscess which is consuming democracy. I think we should all hold a mass protest by stopping our cars and trucks for two minutes in the middle of traffic and leaning on the horns. We currently are not heard in the places where our elected "leaders" dwell. It's about time they heard from us!
AMERICANS MUST NOT WALK SILTENLY INTO THE NIGHT AND JUST TAKE IT
BIG MONEY/BANKS/ETC MUST JOIN IN AND HELP RESOLVE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!!
(WRITTEN , 2009)(UNEDITED, UNABRIDGED)
Liberals and Progressives cannot turn and walk silently into the night. It is time for Americans to be strong and take what is theirs but has been taken by the greedy wealthy to be theirs alone!
If you are fired and the plant is closing, don’t walk silently into the night, Squat! Yes, squat and you will find that others will join you.
If you are evicted from your home don’t leave meekly, squat, do not turn and walk silently into the night.
The truth is if you are fired and have no other job where are you going any way. If you are evicted from your home and have no place to go any way but to live with your children in the car, why not just squat in the house or the yard of your home.
If you are out on the street and cannot find a job why not go to closest Fat Cats home and just squat!! If you are in Washington and can get to the Congressional Leaders, go to the chambers and just squat on the lawns or in the front of their homes!! (John McCormick and Dan Mihalopoulos, 250 union workers refuse to leave Republic Windows Factory, ALIPAC, Sun Dec 07, 2008)
We as Americans have been conditioned to just tighten up our belts take it and if needed make your family tightening up and take it too. Have you seen Donald Trump as he has conditioned the public to just take the ruling by all powerful and omnipotent management, “You are fired!!” These just fired Americans are not informed what they are being fired for and they just turn and go silently into the night. How silly this is. But this is a powerful conditioning tool that prepares Americans to just take it, turn and walk silently into the night. (David Montgomery in The fall of the house of labor: The Workplace, The State and American labor activism, 1865-. . . . He describes the factious leaders and rebellious members of the United Mine Workers whose activities led to both programs for the social reconstruction of the United States. . . . . )
But what if Americans think like its country in some disputes? Thinking out side of the box but taking a page from history, our nation some times has squatted on the door (e. g. borders) of another nation. They take it a step further and call it a “Blockade!” We blockaded Japan (Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor Satoshi Social Science Japan Journal.2008; 11: 316-319) China, Cuba (Overwhelming International Rejection of US Blockade of Cuba at UN, CAN Wrold News, HAVANA, Cuba, Oct 29) and etc. What if American citizens in this confrontation with big business just squat but then formed a blockade of their residence? Like the “Roach Motel,” roaches/big money people go in but no ones comes out. No food, water, electricity, etc., goes in. Not good! Just supposing if!!
There are many Billionaires in the US at this time. In addition, there are at least 7.1 million Americans without work and therefore earn “0” for their families! (Charles B Reynolds, Unemployment in America Today: What Does it Mean?, Business and Finance, December 17, 2007) Reports document the US with 371 billionaires, this is more than any other country!. The total worth of all US billionaires combined is over a trillion dollars. (Number of billionaires surges, Bill Gates remains top billionaire, self-made women are few and Wal-Mart makes five people smile, NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com), March 9, 2006) In addition, A quarterly report prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit in 2007 estimated that there were 16,600,000 millionaires in the USA! (Les Christie, Number of millionaires hits record, CNN/Money staff, May 25, 2005)
These people are true Americans and must be admired. But the 371 Billionaires alone have more money than all 7.5 million unemployed Americans families and are looking to make more even on this tragic American crisis!! There is no real way to judge the patriotism of any American. But the incorporative nature of the Banking Industry in breaking this economic melt down is some where close to treason!
Americans have always believed that it is better to have fought and lost than never to have fought at all. It is the same as love. You may not love the fight but show that you have the spittle and give it the best you have in the store. For Obama as he has to prepares to fight with the bankers, give him some men who are stout hearted men, who will fight for the country they adore, stronger and stronger and bolded and bolder they will grow as they march to the fight, even if there are no WMD in Iraq!!
But with Americans, nothing will happen until the opiate of “Hope” or the Obamas’ runs out!!
Dr. J. Alva Scruggs, BS, MS, MA, EdD
Look Forward to Your Comments
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Not quite congressional criminality
I take Mark's point, but this is not a case of congressional criminality. The perp is an ex-senator. But he is taken advantage of the institutional K-Street corruption that members of Congress permit and do take advantage of. They pocket much in campaign donations from the lobbying industry, and they can look to it as a comfortable place to land should they leave the House or Senate on their own or at the voters' urging. Obama has said he wants to change this culture. The question is not whether he is sincere in saying so--I believe he would like to see it changed--but whether he is able to, given its stranglehold on Washington. This will be a running subplot of the Obama years.
Lobbyistisms
While it is neccessary to control the Lobbyists to prevent abuses, it is also a perfaectly natural demand for businesses - or Unions - to have a way to influence the Decisions that the Government makes that might affect their Business Interests.
In many cases, this is the only way that they could expect to stay in Business - and keep their employees in Wheaties and Wetnaps - as the Gov might just, unintentionally, and with the Best Progressive Motives, regulate them into bankruptcy, a state where they can no longer compete with the competition, or one in which they can no longer manufacture a Product or provide a Service that no one wants.
One thing that we could do, to limit the abuses of the unfortunately quite neccessary 'K' Street Lobbyists, would be to DEMAND that the Supreme Court Ruling (I got this from a Hightower or Zinn or LaRouche Video; though I can't recall the exact ruling, it was in the late 1800's. Check my Salon Space, at JimRinX, in the next few days, and I'll look it up and post it there) that DENIED Corporations 'personhood' under The Bill of Rights by Enforced as it was writ.
You see, as I've learned, it has been misinterpreted as giving Corporations these Rights - rathe than as having denied them to them.
This is because of a certain Legal Reference Volume that list both the Complete Text of a Supreme Court Ruling, and a 'condensed' write up following it; as the Write Up - mistakenly (Ha!) - reports that the Ruling went AGAINST the PEOPLES Best Interests, by Ruling in FAVOR of the Corporations; which is wrong, but has been being 'gotten away with' for some time now.
This would not only put a better collar on Lobbyists; we would also NEVER have had to watch Ken Lay take the Fifth like he was a Human Being, rather than merely the Human (Ha! HA! Ha, Ha, HA!) 'Face' of a Corporation with NO ACTUAL RIGHTS.
Sensitizing Lobbyists to their programs.
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You know in order to drive the point home, young drivers are exposed to bodies in morgues or are forced to view movies of mangled wrecks with bodies strewn about. It seems to have an impact on the positive side. I wonder if Lobbyists had to visit victims of chemical poisonings they would change their ways?
http://www.bccmeteorites.com/misconduct-planetary.html
Perchlorate as an immunotoxin
At high doses perchlorate is an immunotoxin: folks taking it medicinally can suffer from skin rashes, stomach aches, leukopenia (low white blood cells), and fatal aplastic anemia (no red blood cells). Similar effects are produced by high doses of halogens like iodide (iododerma) in skin antiseptics and bromide (bromoderma, bromism) in natural citrus-flavored soft drinks like Mountain Dew. So don't think you can take high doses of iodide as an antidote to perchlorate exposure. Considering how folks drinking 300ppb+ perchlorate became ill (2 year old boy, Lt. Col. in Air Force Intelligence, Mormon bodybuilder) I suspect blockage of cationic proteins of the innate immune system like pentraxin 3 and defensins. Defensins protect against HIV. www.perchlorate.org
Perchlorate
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Here's a reference that I found:
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Perchlorate occurs naturally in arid states in the Southwest United States, in nitrate fertilizer deposits in Chile, and in potash ore in the United States and Canada. It also forms naturally in the atmosphere. Perchlorate is manufactured and used as an industrial chemical and can be found in rocket propellant, explosives, fireworks and road flares. It has been found in some public drinking water systems and in food.
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http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/clo4qa.html#found
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'Naturally occuring in arid states....forms in atmosphere'.
Maybe, just maybe, this is an example of ecomentalizing gone overboard. We don't live in a perfect world, and in this one, Nature makes things like uranium and asbestos, and just leaves em laying around. Kinda sloppy, aren't women supposed to be the neat freaks, and all, what's that all about? She's pretty casual about those volcano-things, too, puts one in wherever she feels like, and you'd do well to avoid it, little overambitious waterbag, you. And, if you get her mad, she'll sping you up a tornado, or rearrange your beachfront property and flood out your casino, and remind you not to build below sea level, but that's Mom for ya, and I'll just bet that half the stuff coming out of a volcano is probably just as toxic, if not moreso, than anything the petrochemical people have ever come up with.
We live in a world FULL of chemicals. Detergents, lubricants, adhesives, paints, synthetic materials(the ones that keep the milk from spilling all over the bottom of the fridge, keep you from running around naked, keep the buttons from falling out of your Blackberry, keep the Honda together etc.), and besides, we're talking about Nevada, here. The reason they chose Nevada to test the A-bomb is because they figured it really wouldn't change much, and I don't know if you've ever driven through there, but if they didn't have Vegas and Reno, everyone probably would have moved back out by now. About all the place is really good for IS mining and nook-u-lur testing, but, they could try and mine something cleaner, I guess, they could set up those windmill things and solar furnace power generation plants, but the long and short of it is, NIMBY apologist tree-hugger politics does not take into account that, in order to have things like Trinitrons or Trident missiles, both of which have demostrable use to Society, you're going to have to break some eggs, and, of course, that sounds like WORK, first and foremost, bane of the ecologically correct liberal elite, and oh, the contamination, well, thanks to all this eco-contamination, most people's drinking water is free of poop germs and other nastiness, and that's an accomplishment right there, I think, and for the extremely contaminant-sensitive, there's either a Brita water pitcher, or staying in the Michael Jackson oxygen bubble. Preferably, a soundproof one. I think groundwater SHOULD be checked, but also cross-checked, to prevent people from misusing related information for the express purpose of putting the political/economic smack-down on our military or other arguably necessary industries. Either you accept the truth of Nylon, or you run around harvesting stray hair off the Persian so you can weave yourself a shirt, there. I also question the source of economic support for some of these environmental outfits, as well as the purity of their motives in seeking to protect the earth. Lots of money involved, competing industries overseas and so forth, ergo room for dispute, discussion, and investigation before you go conducting mass arrests at the fireworks company and hugging trees and cacti and small fuzzy wild animals and prostrating yourself and the rending of hair and clothing and the gnashing of teeth and speaking in tongues etc.
Rockets: Ok, this is one where I gotta ask whether NASA really puts their available faculties to good use. They go to space on liquid oxygen, and liquid hydrogen. Why don't they make the stuff right there at the Cape? Got water nearby, evaporation distillation isn't THAT exotic of a process, and past that they can order an electrolyzer from GE, and then they just gotta cool it and compress and liquefy it from there, and there's lots of solar and wind power to drive THAT train, so why use the other stuff at all if it can be avoided? If they stripped 5-10 tons of weight out of the shuttle, would it still withstand the force of launch, would they still need the SRB's, can they get all the way up to orbit on just liquid oxygen and hydrogen if they really tried? I have no idea as to the gross 'wet' weight of the shuttle when it's ready to fly, but chances are it's a little heavier than the Subaru in the driveway, there.
Before everything had a jet engine on it in aviation-land, weight was an issue, and strong, lightweight construction was the most desirable. With all the new stuff they've discovered in alloy and chemical research, how about coming up with a Shuttle 'Lite', basically rebuild the thing, but in doing so, borrow some notes from old Scaled Composites and Spaceship One, with an eye on ending up 30% lighter and possibly even stronger as a final result? Might improve the glide profile and safety and so forth on landing, too. I don't know, I'm not a real rocket geek, it's just an idea...but I think that, if we're ever going to get into space on a large scale, coming up with ways to make new fuel once up IN space is going to be important, as well as not burning down THIS planet to get there. Well, where there's water, or ice, or clouds for that matter, there's fuel potential, and hopefully The Future will see more reliance on hydrogen/oxygen and a fond farewell to the other more traditional chemical fuels, not just from a pollution standpoint, but also from the standpoint of simplicity and practicality etc.
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Just because it is natural doesn't mean it isn't toxic
Agricultural workers in Chile, who work with their nation's perchlorate-tainted natural desert nitrate, have amongst the highest stomach cancer rates in the world. Stomach cancer in turn is caused by the helicobacter pylori bacteria, which is in turn fought off by defensins. The 30-year old Mormon weightlifter lost both thyroid function and one lung to infection by desert fever. Perchlorate accumulates in the same part of the desert soil column where the desert fever spores reside, so when you are exposed to the spores you also inhale perchlorate aerosol. I'm the one who first found ClO4- in the groundwater of West Texas in an effort to rule out linkage with desert fever. Don't increase perchlorate in my drinking water without testing effects on pentraxin 3 and defensins!
Here's a reference for you
http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2002/Perchlorate-Water-Cold-War16dec02.htm
The great weakness of the writeup: Walden ignored the other contaminants. The Voetschs' ailments are primarily from the nitrosamines in liquid rocket fuel. Doris Voetsch, by the way, is on her deathbed with three simultaneous primary cancers of the lung, colon, and breast. For perchlorate effects, look to Sandra Lester at the end of the article. Both 15 year-old Sandra and her mother simultaneously came down with Graves disease after moving into the exposed neighborhood. Autoimmune thyroid disease is supposed to be age-dependent. Likely culprit: B-19 parvovirus. Worst here in the past: A friend stopped growing at age 9 after moving here in 1965. First she was hypothyroid, then they thought she had leukemia, then she had Graves. Probably was B-19, but she had to be really immunosuppressed to be that sick.
This is the experimental generation of "chemical lab rats"
Perchlorate is a known toxic chemical. So are many of the almost 100,000 in use today in products, manufacturing and industry today. Only about 300 have been tested for human health safety. A new chemical can be on the market in 3 weeks and it takes about 30 years to take one out of use and production.
Unless and until all federal and state agencies charged with protecting human health, food, water, drugs and personal product safety are all totally disconnected from the political appointees in agency administration; nothing will change. Leave the administrative division under the Executive Branch and move the enforcement branch to either Homeland Security (that's what it is--isn't it?) or under the Congressional Science Department. If enforcement was moved away from political favors and lobbying, and the enforcement of the regulations and/or laws was held to the same standard as law enforcement instead of the current "discretionary enforcement," there would be a significant difference.
The EPA's largest research "partner" is the chemical industry. They are also partners with every industry they regulate. The same applies to the FDA and USDA.
So, we have a choice. look away from the egregious violations of enforcement that allows perchlorate contamination, salmonella in peanuts, E. coli in spinach--or demand that Congress remove enforcement from agency administration and improve our health and safety. Which will you choose, and what will you do to make this happen? Will it be easy? No. Can we make it happen? Yes!
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Support Ares V Please.
Ironically, ATK's Ares V rocket, which uses solid augmentation, is actually cleaner than the Alabama made EELVs which also use solid augmentation.
Like it or not, all Launch vehicles will need to use solids for the time being.
But ATKs launch vehicles use all hydrogen for their upper stages.
Indeed, Ares V is by volume mostly hydrogen. It will throw less RS-68 LH2 burning engines away per 130 tons than would Alabama's Delta IV. The Atlas V (Not ARES V) uses kerosene, and Russian RD-180 engines.
You see, the EELVs (Atlas V and Delta IV) are made in Red state Alabama. Ares V will be made in Hurricane Katrina ravaged Louisiana.
If President Obama's pick for NASA Chief gets his way---disadvantaged people in Katrina-ravaged parts of the US will suffer, as more aerospace jobs leave blue-state for red states, as I describe here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/13/144934/193/497/697159
Sadly, the United States Air Force is trying to hurt NASA. Ares V would be the vehicle of choice to launch space-based solar powersats. But the Air Force wants F-22 and F-35 fighter jets, so they try to get one of their shills in so as to have NASA pay for Air Farce EELVs.
I didn't agree with Mike Griffin on everything--but he wanted an independant NASA at least. Coyote Smith wanted Space Based Solar Power.
Frankly, I think Obama, who wanted to delay cancel VSE--will be a worse disaster for Louisiana. As aerospace jobs vanish, tax money that goes to the Katrina ravaged will vanish as well.
US rocketry needs friends--no ill informed enemies...
Let's support Ares V. With a few SRBs expended, we can actually have CLEANER SKIES tomorrow.
PS Something you might not know. Every Delta II launched weather satellite has also used solids--and has burned kerosene to boot.
Ares I and V use no hydrocarbons as liquid fuel.
Remember that.
Immunotoxic concerns drove 2002 EPA Reference Dose to 1 ppb
http://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?dirEntryID=24002
Download perchtoxreview_erd_012002.pdf
Page E-10, lines 9-10:
"Finally, a three-fold factor was applied for inaccurate characterization of immunotoxicity."
In other words, the perchlorate reference dose just based on thyroid concerns would have been 3 ppb, but Burleson's skin contact sensitivity data in mice (page 5-102) drove the reference dose down to 1 ppb.
Note to progressives
Note to progressives, to help the poor funding of private charities exist. To educate children in schools funded by the private sector there. Of course, with so much regulation and taxes and the unfair competition from government entities, is not so easy to download the free road. See internet movies database and you can Downloading MP3 Music
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Agricultural workers in Chile, who work with their nation's perchlorate-tainted natural desert nitrate, have amongst the highest stomach cancer rates in the world. Stomach cancer in turn is caused by the helicobacter pylori bacteria, which is in turn fought off by defensins. The 30-year old Mormon weightlifter lost both thyroid function and one lung to infection by desert fever. Perchlorate accumulates in the same part of the desert soil column where the desert fever spores reside, so when you are exposed to the spores you also inhale perchlorate aerosol. I'm the one who first found ClO4- in the groundwater of West Texas in an effort to rule out linkage with desert fever. Don't increase perchlorate in my drinking water without testing effects on pentraxin 3 and defensins!
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"...which can turn
"...which can turn politicians who pushed environmental initiatives into influence-peddlers for polluters..." This is scary. To add some information, Perchlorate is present a little of 4% of public water systems. Why? because Perchlorate is a natural chemical and also a man-made used commercial: fireworks, explosives, flares and yes, rocket propellant. So its very important to be a watchdog for this contaminant.
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