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Posted Wed Jul 8 2009: from Washington Bureau:
The Pentagon's War on America: The Office of the Secretary of Defense http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1247073925
...the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has spent years debating whether to set an enforceable regulatory standard for perchlorate... When asked why he challenged EPA's health research on perchlorate during his tenure -- initiating a lengthy review process that continues to this day -- Ray DuBois, the Bush-era Pentagon's top environmental official for more than three years, said he depended on the advice of his chemical policy expert, Shannon Cunniff. In his telling, her analysis of "conflicting science" led him to reject a draft EPA assessment showing that health and environmental limits for perchlorate might need to be tightened. During an extensive interview with DCBureau.org, he often highlighted her role in the process, emphasizing that no one else on his staff had a chemical policy background. The problem with this account is that Cunniff says none of it is true. Indeed, as the timeline shows, DuBois only hired her after the decision to challenge the studies was already made.
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