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News - NRDC Comments on EPA’s Lindane Reregistration Eligibility Decision (2986 words) |
 | NRDC reminds the Agency that the persistent failure to include all uses of this chemical in the aggregate risk determination is illegal. |
| NRDC is alarmed by the MOE analysis of lindane use for scabies. |
| NRDC is incorporates by reference our comments on the Lindane Draft Risk Assessment dated October 29, 2001, and on the Lindane Revised Risk Assessment dated April 1, 2002, as we believe that EP A has failed to adequately address our concerns in the RED. |
| NRDC Wrong About Bottled Water. Drinking Water Research Foundation (8578 words) |
| The NRDC Report does recognize that on December 16, 1998, EPA reduced the tap water MCL for TTHMs to 80 ppb from 100 ppb; however, this standard is not effective until December 16, 2001 at the earliest, and for small systems not until December 16, 2003 (Fed. Reg. |
| NRDC asserts that chemical-contaminant-testing requirements for bottled water are weaker than EPA standards for tap water because municipal water, but not bottled water, must be tested for sixteen unregulated contaminants. |
| Therefore, while the NRDC insists on reporting that two of the 103 brands of bottled water tested positive for coliform bacteria, this was true only of the first preliminary screening, and was not supported by at least three rounds of tests that followed, all conducted by state-certified, independent commercial labs. |
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