Rocket Science Perchlorate and the Toxic Legacy of the Cold War

The EPA has found perchlorate-tainted water in 18 states, including sources of drinking water for almost 7 million Californians, & believes that contamination exists wherever rockets were made or tested. Perchlorate, the main ingredient of missile & rocket fuel, is a chemical that interferes with normal thyroid function, may cause thyroid cancer & persists indefinitely in the environment, but is unregulated by the state or Fed. gov't. Chapters: a toxic legacy: known or suspected perchlorate contamination in CA & in the U.S., & sites of perchlorate detection in CA waters systems & in the U.S.; a perchlorate primer; rocket science; & polluting the regulatory process.Sharp, Renee is the author of 'Rocket Science Perchlorate and the Toxic Legacy of the Cold War' with ISBN 9780756714680 and ISBN 0756714680.