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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (156426)	6/28/2001 11:35:19 PM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769669

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An environmental group, backed by six Democratic senators, filed suit against the Bush administration Thursday to compel it to adhere to tougher standards on arsenic in drinking water. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals by the Natural Resources Defense Council alleges the Environmental Protection Agency did not meet the June 22, 2001, deadline set by Congress to lower the acceptable level. "The Bush EPA's suspension of the arsenic [standard] is a distressing, unscientific and illegal threat to the health of millions of Americans," Erik D. Olson, a senior attorney with the environmental group, told Reuters. Joining in the suit as "friends of the court" were Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-California; Hillary Clinton, D-New York; Harry Reid, D-Nevada; Jon Corzine, D-New Jersey; Charles Schumer, D-New York; and Paul Wellstone, D-Minnesota. With the cancer-producing dangers of arsenic in drinking water, the group said the Bush administration was ignoring scientific evidence and the congressional statute that required communities to lower the arsenic content to 10 parts per billion from the standard of 50 parts per billion set in 1942.