Perchlorate, or ClO4-, disrupts the thyroid gland that regulates metabolism in adults and physical development in children and is increasingly being found in soil and water. It is used to make ...

Perchlorate is a chemical that’s used in things like rocket fuel, explosives, road flares, and fireworks. Small amounts of it can also form naturally in dry states in the Southwest. It has no ...

It’s hardly a household name, but Perchlorate is a chemical that helps rockets reach for the stars. It's also known to enter ...

The tests by the advocacy group come decades after the chemical, called perchlorate, was first identified as a contaminant in food and water. The Environmental Working Group in 2003 found ...

NASA's Phoenix lander has found evidence of an active water cycle and extensive subsurface ice on Mars, as well as evidence that magnesium perchlorate (Mg(ClO4)2) is a major component of Martian soil.

EPA deems perchlorate levels safe, but advocacy group says public is at risk. April 3, 2009— -- When a parent puts a bottle of baby formula to a child's lips, the parent might not know ...

The Bush administration is illegally withholding information about the ill effects of ammonium perchlorate, a rocket fuel ingredient that has tainted water supplies in at least 29 states ...

Here’s how it works. The pervading carpet of perchlorate chemicals found on Mars may boost the chances that microbial life exists on the Red Planet — but perchlorates are also perilous to the ...

Perchlorate (ClO 4 −) is a soluble anion that comprises a central chlorine atom surrounded by four oxygen atoms. In the United States, perchlorate contamination of drinking water supplies is ...