Wheres the Moxie on Chlorine?
I just wish that our presidential-aspiring environmental champions, Al Gore and George W. Bush, could also write or say “chlorine.” It would be very exciting indeed if at least one of the candidates reached out to the American public and actually said something like: “Current federal environmental policy to control the risk of poisoning our country with chlorine-based chemicals stinks. These substances are building up everywhere — in the environment, food and our bodies.” I would expect the candidate to instinctively gaze to his left and then to his right to determine which chemical industry lobbyists were already beginning to twitch. Those twitches would undoubtedly become big-time spasms should the candidate take the next vital step and warn that these types of chemicals — so-called “organochlorines” — have been associated with cancer, immune problems, and fertility and developmental disorders. Try to imagine a presidential candidate who would then propose that the major way to de
