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Governor vetoes Soto water bill
- The San Bernardino Sun
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9/30/2006 |
| A bill to change the way the state determines standards for drinking water died on the governor's desk and two funding plans to clean up perchlorate contamination moved a step forward. | |
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Water board appointees OK'd
- The Riverside Press Enterprise
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9/22/2006 |
| Perchlorate: A state Senate panel recommended confirming three of Gov. Schwarzenegger's appointees to the Inland area's regional water board Monday, after the members promised to renew efforts to clean up a Rialto-area perchlorate plume. | |
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Alerta por Agua contaminanda en Rialto
- La Opinion
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8/4/2006 |
| Los niveles de contaminacion en algunos pozos de agua potable localizados en la region de Inland Empire aumentaron en los ultimos 12 meses pese a los esfuerzos de grupos ambientalistas por reducirlos a las normals aceptadas por las leyes estatales. | |
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Water-quality board under fire
- The Riverside Press Enterprise
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8/12/2006 |
| Three regional water quality board members appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger will undergo further scrutiny after a state senator complained the board has done little to clean up perchlorate contamination in a key Inland drinking water source. | |
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GAO Faults Mklitary Policy on Contaminants
- Los Angeles Times
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6/30/2004 |
| A congressional report released Tuesday found that the military is not taking steps to clean up areas where high levels of the hazardous chemical perchlorate have been found. | |
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Pollution in Rialto wells has risen
- San Bernardino Sun
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6/2/2006 |
| Perchlorate contamination in local groundwater has spiked, claims a study released tody. | |
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Water-cleanup proposal rejected
- The Riverside Press Enterprise
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4/22/2006 |
| Inland residents and activists, frustrated by what they say is a lack of progress on ridding perchlorate from their groundwater sources, failed Friday to get regional water regulators to adopt a plan they devised to speed the cleanup of the rocket fuel ingredient. | |
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'Health goal' for perchlorate will remain
- The Riverside Press Enterprise
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4/1/2005 |
| California officials announced Friday that they are sticking with a "health goal" of 6 parts per billion for the rocket-fuel chemical perchlorate for drinking water -- about one-fourth the amount deemed safe by the Bush administration in February. | |
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PHG not likely to change
- The Gilroy Dispatch
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4/1/2005 |
| The state's public health goal for perchlorate will not be reopened for public comment and will likely not budge from its current level of 6 parts per billion. | |
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California Ruling on Jet Pollutant Is Pentagon Boon
- The Wall Street Journal
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3/12/2004 |
| In a decision that could save the Pentagon and some defense contractors billions of dollars in cleanup costs, California issued a tentative threshold for perchlorate in drinking water that is six times as high as what the Environmental Protection Agency has said is safe for public consumption. | |
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Critics blast slow perchlorate cleanup
- The San Bernardino Sun (new window)
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2006-08022 |
| The cleanup of contaminated groundwater in Rialto, Colton and Fontana has been moving too slowly, critics contended during a state Senate hearing Monday. | |
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Tech study finds fuel chemical in breast milk
- The Houston Chronicle
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2/24/2005 |
| A toxic chemical used to make rocket fuel was found in virtually ever sample taken in a new study of nursing mothers' milk, but researchers said it's too early to know whether the perchlorate levels are dangerous. | |
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Rocket-Fuel Chemical Found in Breast Milk
- The Los Angeles Times
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2/23/2005 |
| Perchlorate is found in almost all samples tested, a study finds, raising concerns about the substance's effect on the thyroid and brain. | |
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Group hits perchlorate study tactics
- San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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12/3/2006 |
| An environmental organization claims that a group funded by manufacturing and aerospace companies - including one found liable for contaminating the San Gabriel Valley Water Basin - used misleading research and tobacco industry-style lobbying to influence the debate on the effects of perchlorate. | |
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Chemical research questioned
- The Los Angeles Daily News
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12/3/2006 |
| An environmental group has accused perchlorate manufacturers of using a page from the tobacco industry's playbook - promoting bad science to downplay the rocket fuel component's threat to drinking water. | |
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Reclaman agua sin perclorato
- La Opinion
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12/2/2006 |
| La gigentesca compania aeroespacial Goodrich Corporation y otras responsables de contaminar el agua en la region de Inland Empire con particulas de perclorato, usado como combustible para cohetes, estan recurriendo a algunas tacticas para evadir pagos millonarios requeridos para su limpieza. | |
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Pickets demand groundwater cleanup
- The Riverside Press Enterprise (new window)
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12/1/2006 |
| About 20 Rialto residents, a city councilman and representatives of nonprofit organizations gathered with signs in front of the Goodrich Corp. facility in Riverside on Friday, demanding that the corporation clean up perchlorate contamination in groundwater. | |
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Deal on tainted water made with Goodrich
- The San Bernardino Sun
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11/6/2005 |
| About 30 protestors picketed a meeting Wednesday night at which BF Goodrich, accused of contaminating the groundwater of hundreds of thousands of residents of Rialto, Fontana and Colton with perchlorate, hammered out a settlement with the regional water board. | |
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Citizens protest against chemical in drinking water
- The Fontana Herald News
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11/5/2005 |
| Drinking rocket fuel for breakfast will probably never replace the traditional glass of orange juice, but some say there is too much of it in our drinking water. | |
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State to limit toxin in water
- San Gabriel Valley Times (new window)
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10/7/2007 |
| PASADENA — This month, for the first time, the state will begin regulating the amount of the toxin perchlorate in drinking water. | |
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Chemical Creep
- The Riverside Press Enterprise
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10/12/2006 |
| California and federal enviromental regulators should revist their health standards for perchlorate, in light of a study released last week. Researchers found that even tiny levels of the chemical could harm more than a third of U.S. women. | |
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Water standard pushed
- The Los Angeles Daily News
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1/8/2007 |
| California's two U.S. senators have introduced legislation to establish a federal drinking water standard for perchlorate, the rocket fuel component found in the Whittaker-Bermite site in central Santa Clarita. | |
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Perchlorate plea to the governor
- Gilroy Dispatch
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1/26/2005 |
| A collection of environmental groups petitioned state agencies Tuesday to reopen discussion of the state's public health goal for perchlorate and - in the meantime - set an emergency drinking water standard of 1 part per billion. | |
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| 1/11/2005 | |
| In a long-awaited report, a national panel of scientists wrote Monday that perchlorate, an ingredient of solid rocket fuel that has contaminated drinking water and food throughout the country, poses a public health risk at low doses but not at amounts as low as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had calculated. | |
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Water safety findings clash
- The Sacramento Bee
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1/11/2005 |
| An independent panel of distinguished scientists concluded Monday that a rocket-fuel chemical pervasive in California's drinking water supplies is safe to consume at levels 20 times greater than the dose propsoed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. | |
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Experts duel over perchlorate issue
- Pasadena Star News
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1/10/2005 |
| An environmental group Monday called on the state Department of Health Services to lower the level of perchlorate allowed in drinking water, even as a national board of scientists concluded the chemical is safe for consumption at three times the state's standard. | |
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Group urges cleanup of perchlorate
- The Riverside Press Enterprise
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1/10/2005 |
| A report sayhs the chemical at current levels may be harmful to children. | |
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