Sentences with phrase «about environmental contamination»

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A coalition of state and national environmental groups have raised concerns about water contamination and other impacts on Western Australia's largest national park.

Packaging that incorporates nano materials should be made smart, which means it should respond to environmental conditions or repair itself or alert a consumer about contaminations.

Instead, the elected officials insist they were first notified last March about the contamination — though the state Health Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency informed them little could be done because the toxic chemical was not a regulated contaminant.

«Well, it's primarily a state issue but I'm certainly anxious to explore the question about monitoring of medical conditions of people who were affected by environmental contaminations.

Seggos» nomination was moved forward by the Senate environmental committee on Tuesday, though he faced questions about water contamination in Hoosick Falls.

A study last year by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised similar concerns about groundwater contamination.

Please share what you know about past uses of the property and any known or suspected environmental contamination:

Vermont environmental officials will hold meetings Tuesday to provide the latest information to Bennington - area residents about the PFOA contamination of local water supplies and the ongoing response.

Michael Hickey, the village resident who tested the water and sounded the first alarm about the contamination three years ago, as well as Loreen Hackett, Emily Marpe and her 12 - year - old daughter, Gwen Young, traveled there on behalf of the Environmental Working Group and Environmental Defense Fund.

Even after the federal Environmental Protection Agency cautioned the state health department about the levels of PFOA contamination in Hoosick Falls, the health department handed out a fact sheet that said, «Health effects are not expected to occur from normal use of the water.»

The report comes amid heightened concern by some environmental and consumer groups about contamination of drinking water by agricultural chemicals.

We know very little about how the environmental conditions in the Arctic may affect the degradation of plastic to microplastics, and how vulnerable Arctic species are to this type of contamination.

Mercury Undercover discusses the mountain of evidence about mercury contamination, as reported by doctors, scientists, environmental experts and mercury - poisoned survivors.

Developed exclusively for residential real estate transactions, the report delivers information about a property and the neighborhood around it from a database of more than 23 million records including local, state and federal records of known environmental contamination in the United States over the last 100 years.

Experimentally, it can persist longer and be carried about when shoes, hands or clothes are contaminated with feces, but indirect environmental contamination is not how this virus usually moves about.

The authors of the study concluded that dogs on a raw food diet may be a source of environmental contamination, although they caution about the generalizability of their results due to the small number of dogs studied.

At the very least, the low infection rates found in feral cats — combined with the much higher rates in bobcats and pumas — raise serious questions about domestic cats» role in environmental contamination of T. gondii.

Thinking broadly about the effects of environmental contamination, the exhibition's tendrils of inquiry touch on the granular, the bodily and the interplanetary.

It was concluded that fireworks nearby were the source of the contamination, so the state's Department of Environmental Protection set guidelines about protecting drinking water and the disposal of duds (a big source of the chemicals).

COAL: An environmental group is concerned about groundwater contamination at 15 sites around Indiana where coal ash is stored.

So it's no surprise that in his speech Thursday, Koch reportedly «dismissed concerns about pollution and environmental contamination raised with regard to fracking» and advocated drilling for shale gas.

Based on the book by ecologist, author, and cancer - survivor Sandra Steingraber: A documentary that follows Steingraber for a year as she travels across North America to break the silence about the connections between environmental contamination and cancer.

It is about paying for the remediation of massive environmental contamination.

Failing to inform a client about possible environmental contamination arising from the existing or a prior use of the property (e.g., as a gas station or dry cleaning operation) that might interfere with the client's intended future use.

The Buyers had inquired about the Contamination, and the state's environmental regulator had advised the Listing Broker that the sales brochures had misleading information about the Contamination.