Word: arsenicated
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Someone intends for your next glass of water to be peppered with arsenic, and it will not be the prosaic English butler with the devilish glint in his eye. Rather, at the center of this mystery is the president of the United States...
Last week, in a remarkably irresponsible move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the reversal of a standard proposed at the end of President Bill Clinton’s term that would have reduced the amount of arsenic permitted in drinking water by 80 percent. The current limit, which was set in 1942, has been widely judged as inadequate to keep America’s drinking water safe. However, to the jubilation of the mining industry and other arsenic producers, the Bush administration is holding to the old standard, claiming that it will eventually be lowered but only after more...
Bush’s professions that he is unconvinced by the evidence are themselves entirely unconvincing. A favorite poison of mystery writers and the Medici, arsenic is also a known carcinogen. According to one study completed in 1999 by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, the current maximum arsenic level allowed by law results in a 1-in-1,000 risk to men of developing lung or bladder cancer. Though no recent studies have been conducted on Americans, the evidence from international reports is compelling, and the researchers urged the EPA to reduce...
...time” for Social Security reform—but less than a year later, it seems that now is the time for anything but. Though the administration has been pushing tax and education plans full-steam, though battles have begun on everything from campaign finance reform to arsenic in the drinking water, the Social Security privatization camp is dead quiet. How could this...
...Decorum about what? The environment, above all. Bush is repeating the Clinton administration's early errors of symbolism and priority. As Clinton stupidly allowed gays in the military to become an opening issue of his administration, so Bush has given early prominence to carbon dioxide emissions, arsenic in the water, rejection of the Kyoto treaty, and oil drilling in Arctic Alaska. Dumb...