How Environmentalists Lost the Battle (to the Pentagon) Over TCE

well, worth the read.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-toxic29mar29,0,2725321,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
From the Los Angeles Times

How Environmentalists Lost the Battle Over TCE

By Ralph Vartabedian
Times Staff Writer

March 29, 2006

After massive underground plumes of an industrial solvent were discovered in the nation's water supplies, the Environmental Protection Agency mounted a major effort in the 1990s to assess how dangerous the chemical was to human health.

Following four years of study, senior EPA scientists came to an alarming conclusion: The solvent, trichloroethylene, or TCE, was as much as 40 times more likely to cause cancer than the EPA had previously believed.

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What happened with TCE is a stark illustration of a power shift that has badly damaged the EPA's ability to carry out one of its essential missions: assessing the health risks of toxic chemicals.

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The military says it is only striving to make smart decisions based on sound science and accuses the EPA of being unduly influenced by left-leaning scientists.

all around Camp Edwards/Otis Air base.

Most of us used 5 gallon bottles of water from off Cape for cooking and drinking and took a chance on showering in town water.

Covering up military pollution is going to be one of the biggest scandals out there if we ever get back into power.