Press Releases

STATEMENT FROM THE PERCHLORATE INFORMATION BUREAU (PIB) RE: EPA Perchlorate Decision Upholds Science, Agency Practice, and Federal Law Today’s decision by EPA that perchlorate does not merit additional federal regulation, is based on the best available scientific...

Update 11/2020: A new study by Lain, et. al suggest that the low levels of perchlorate found in the environment will not negatively impact IQ in children. Perchlorate has a well-documented, scientifically-established “No Observed Effect Level” (NOEL) which, at 245...

The best available science supports EPA’s regulatory decision on perchlorate. More than 60 years of scientific research have repeatedly demonstrated that perchlorate does not meet the requirements for additional nationwide regulation, nor would a national drinking...

Despite sensational headlines regarding a recent paper published in Nature Structural and Molecular Biology by researchers at Vanderbilt University, (“Allosteric Regulation of Mammalian Na+/I- Symporter Activity by Perchlorate”), this paper adds little-to-no new...

US EPA should withdraw its 2011 regulatory determination to set a national water standard for perchlorate and revise its perchlorate reference dose and health advisory, in accordance with the findings in its Proposed Perchlorate Rule published on June 26, 2019. The...

The Perchlorate Study Group is highly concerned with the EPA’s proposed framework for assessing its approach to perchlorate regulation, as it is insufficient to assure the quality of the peer review process, and the omission of important scientific considerations...

This lawsuit is an unfortunate attempt to undermine the regulatory process and pressure the EPA to ignore sound science and distract it from attending to real and significant public health concerns. The scientific record clearly shows environmental levels of...

March 4, 2015 – The Perchlorate Information Bureau (PIB) agrees with the recommendation of Dr. Joseph Cotruvo in a recent commentary he authored in Water Technology about the decision by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate perchlorate...

California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has failed to provide scientific evidence that the state’s perchlorate public health goal (PHG) needs to be reduced from the current, highly conservative level, and continues to rely on questionable...

June 4, 2014 – The Perchlorate Information Bureau (PIB) agrees with the recommendation from the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Environmental Health (AAP) that the U.S. “Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should proceed with appropriate (emphasis added)...