Environmental group sues EPA over withheld records on nitrate drinking water assessment
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Environmental group Food & Water Watch is suing the EPA for failing to provide information about a nitrate assessment that the group believes was shelved. The assessment would have provided research needed to update drinking water standards for nitrate and nitrite, which the group claims are too weak to protect against health risks including certain cancers, thyroid disease, and birth defects linked to nitrate/nitrite exposure in drinking water.
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· 2 pulledFood & Water Watch allege the 'apparently scuttled' assessment would have provided EPA with the research necessary to update drinking water standards for nitrate and nitrite.
The group alleges the current standards are 'far too lax' to protect against the health threats — like an increased risk of certain cancers, thyroid disease and birth defects — that some research holds are linked to nitrate and nitrite exposure in drinking water.
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