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Rich Murray: Working Assets:
re arsenic in water, quickly send protests 3.23.1 rmforall
Hello, Working Assets provides a new way for us to instantly protest to agencies and our Senators on any issue. Thanks, Rich Murray
When Americans turn on their faucets, they expect the water coming out to be safe to drink. Yet, in President Bush's latest clumsy and craven payback to his powerful industrialist backers, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it will withdraw a new requirement to reduce levels of poisonous arsenic allowed in our tap water, staying at the dangerous old level of 50 ppb, instead of the modern 10 ppb limit set years ago by every nation in Europe.
All Americans expect and deserve safe drinking water. Please help us stop this cynical, harmful, stupid decision by the Bush Administration and the EPA.
Tell EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman that as our public servant she must stand up for public safety, rather than kowtow to the president's financiers. Working Assets is sponsoring this urgent action. Please tell the EPA to rethink this terrible decision. Simply click on this link, or cut and paste it into your browser:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=11004
A proven carcinogen, arsenic occurs naturally, but is also a common byproduct of mining operations. Not coincidentally, Bush received more money from the mining industry during last year's campaign than any other candidate for federal office, and his party sucked in another $5.6 million from the same special interest lobby.
Bush's loyalty to these supporters comes at the expense of some 13 million Americans the EPA itself estimates are at risk from deadly diseases linked to arsenic exposure: Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, birth defects, reproductive problems, neurological damage and cancers of the bladder, lung, skin, kidney, nasal passage, liver and prostate. Children and pregnant mothers are especially at risk.
Such a stark example of the power of special interest money and the real harm it can do comes right in the middle of a crucial Senate debate on campaign finance reform. Votes on controversial amendments to the McCain-Feingold reform legislation are happening nearly every day. If you have not told your Senators how you feel on the legalized bribery that passes for elections these days, please use the link below to do so today:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=10601
"This decision will force millions of Americans to continue to drink arsenic-laced water," said Erik D. Olson of the National Resources Defense Council said of the EPA backslide. "Many will die from arsenic-related cancers and other diseases, but George Bush apparently doesn't care. This outrageous act is just another example of how the polluters have taken over the government."
The new standard was a result of more than a decade of scientific reviews, public hearings, and discussions with health experts and industry, and mirrors the international standard , 10 ppb, adopted several years ago by the World Health Organization and the European Union. The old standards, 50 ppb, that the Bush Administration is re-imposing were designed in 1942, before the dangerous long-term effects of low-level exposure to arsenic were well-understood. A March 1999 report by the prestigious National Academy of Sciences concluded that these outdated standards do not "achieve EPA's goal of protecting public health and should be lowered as soon as possible."
There is strength in numbers! So once you take action, please forward this e-mail to friends and associates so they can speak out, too.
With appreciation, Michael Kieschnick President, Working Assets
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http://www.workingforchange.com/rgr/rgr_rgr01.cfm
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NRDC SUES EPA ON ARSENIC LEVELS IN DRINKING WATER
The Natural Resources Defense Council said it would file a lawsuit today against the U.S. EPA for ignoring a congressional deadline to have a plan in place by last Friday to reduce arsenic levels in drinking water. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said she and several other senators would file papers in support of the NRDC lawsuit. In March, the Bush administration suspended a Clinton administration rule that would have allowed no more than 10 parts per billion of arsenic in tap water, leaving in place the 1942 standard of 50 ppb. The World Health Organization recommends a standard of no more than 10 ppb. - Las Vegas Sun, Associated Press, 28 Jun 2001.
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