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The '''Perchlorate Information Bureau''' (formerly the '''Council on Water Quality''') is the "educational arm" of the [[Perchlorate Study Group]]. It is "supported by [[Lockheed Martin]], [[Aerojet]], [[Tronox]] and [[American Pacific Corporation]]," companies with a vested interest in the environmental and health standards applied to drinking water contaminated by the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate. <ref>"[http://www.perchlorateinformationbureau.org/ Homepage]," Perchlorate Information Bureau website, accessed April 2009.</ref>

Its website states the Perchlorate Information Bureau is "dedicated to improving the public dialogue on the facts about perchlorate in drinking and irrigation water, as well as food, and the potential impacts of perchlorate regulation on human health, water supply, water rates and taxpayers." It adds that the group's corporate funders "have worked cooperatively with the [[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]." <ref name="about">"[http://www.perchlorateinformationbureau.org/about/index.html About the Perchlorate Information Bureau]," Perchlorate Information Bureau website, accessed April 2009.</ref>

==Supporters==

According to its website, the Perchlorate Information Bureau's funders are: <ref name="about"/>
* [[Aerojet]]
* [[American Pacific Corporation]]
* [[Lockheed Martin]]
* [[Tronox]]

The group's website also listed [[Kerr-McGee Chemical]] as a supporter, up until at least December 2005. <ref>"[http://web.archive.org/web/20051225072159/http://www.councilonwaterquality.org/about/index.html About the Council on Water Quality]," archived web page via Archive.org, dated December 25, 2005.</ref> Tronox is a chemical company spun off from [[Kerr-McGee]]. <ref>David Corn, "[http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/rocket-fuel-man Rocket (Fuel) Man]," ''Mother Jones'', February 13, 2009.</ref>

==Website registrations==

The "Council on Water Quality" website domain name was registered, according to a Whois search, on August 1, 2003 by [[Deborah Aker]], an "Internet Strategist" from the Washington D.C. office of the PR firm [[APCO Worldwide]]. Download a PDF copy of the domain name registration [https://www.sourcewatch.org/images/a/a6/Council_on_Water_Quality_Domain.pdf here].

The "Perchlorate Information Bureau" website domain name was registered, according to a Whois search, on June 9, 2008 by APCO. <ref>"[http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/perchlorateinformationbureau.org Perchlorateinformationbureau.org WHOIS search]," NetworkSolutions.com, accessed April 2009.</ref>

==Contact details==
Phone: 916-448-3152 (a Sacramento, California number)<br>
Web: http://www.perchlorateinformationbureau.org/

==Articles and resources==

===Related SourceWatch articles===
*[[APCO Worldwide]]
*[[Chemical threat to human health]]
*[[Kerr-McGee]]
*[[Lockheed Martin]]
*[[Perchlorate Study Group]]
*[[Richard Bryan]]

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