Act to Keep Drinking Water Safe from Plutonium Contamination
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IEER invites you to sign the letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking the agency to tighten the drinking water limit for plutonium and other alpha-emitting, long-lived radionuclides. You will join other groups and individuals in telling the EPA that the drinking water limit for such contaminants must be strengthened to protect public health. Specifically, the letter urges the EPA to incorporate IEER's scientific analysis of the drinking water standard for alpha-emitting transuranic radionuclides into the agency's legally-mandated review of drinking water limits for radionuclides, scheduled for 2006. Our goal is to get the EPA to change the combined Maximum Contaminant Limit (MCL) for alpha-emitting, long-lived transuranic radionuclides from 15 picocuries per liter to 0.15 picocuries per liter. If you are concerned about the potential impact of too much radiation in your family's drinking water, please sign. The more groups and individuals that endorse the report, the better than chances that EPA will act to strengthen the drinking water standard. Endorse the report by clicking "Sign the EPA letter." Read the letter here. The letter will remain open for sign-ons until the EPA concludes its review, probably around fall 2006. IEER will forward new sign-ons to the EPA periodically until that time. |
