Sentences with phrase «about toxic water»

It is kind of interesting how we seem to generally ignore all the news about toxic water, yet we continually get transfixed on «miracle cures».

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Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

So I was infuriated when Riverhead Supervisor Walter, asked about these die - offs, was quoted as saying that previous rain «may have washed toxins into the water» and quickly backed away from the «toxic» idea, saying later when asked about scientists» findings, «Yeah, well everybody has their own theory.

The public hearing held by the DEC yielded 6000 comments raising several new concerns about risks to our water supply such as the presence of a toxic chemical dump in the middle of the pipeline alignment.

There are frequent rail accidents and pipeline explosions, evidence of long term water contamination esp around Dimock PA and in WY, non disclosure agreements forced on people whose health has been damaged from exposure to toxic emissions, secrecy about all of these issues, and climate changes caused by too much fossil fuel emissions.

But Cuomo has yet to set foot in Hoosick Falls, where about 4,000 people can't drink their water because it contains a toxic chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately at the state Capitol with school and government leaders from Hoosick Falls about ongoing efforts to deal with the discovery of a toxic chemical that contaminated public and private water supplies in the Rensselaer County community

Hoosick Falls village officials secretly hired a Glens Falls public relations firm last month to help develop «an overall communications program» as criticism mounted about their decision to not warn residents to stop drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical.

Gina McCarthy, the administrator for the EPA, fired back at New York's commissioners of health and environmental conservation, who this week accused the federal agency of giving «conflicting guidance» about a toxic chemical that polluted water supplies in eastern Rensselaer County.

• Residents of a tiny Hudson Valley hamlet have lost hope about remedies for their toxic water as officials shift resources to Hoosick Falls.

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.

ALBANY — Angry residents from Hoosick Falls stormed into the state Capitol on Wednesday to demand a full accounting of why the state, federal and local government took so long to warn them about the dangerous toxic chemicals in their water.

I don't think very many people think about the safety side, though,» he adds, pointing out that even life - essential things like water or oxygen, can be toxic if too much is taken in.

«I was surprised to see the toxic emissions data from coal mines, the information about mine runoff, and the long - term emissions to soil and water from coal mines.»

As Elizabeth Grossman reveals in High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health (Island Press, $ 29.95), her dense and damning book about the afterlife of techno - trash, much of what we cast away is improperly disposed of — regardless of our efforts — and ends up leaching toxins into the air, water, and soil.

Although atmospheric oxygen soon recovered again as photosynthesis and weathering reached a new balance, at about 10 per cent of present - day levels, the oxidative weathering of sulphides on land filled the oceans with sulphate which created abundant food for a group of bacteria that filled the oceans with sewer gas (hydrogen sulphide) toxic to oxygen - loving lifeforms (delaying the development of eukaryotic plants and animals) and turned them «into stinking, stagnant waters almost entirely devoid of oxygen.»

The new AquaDx chip will work with the hand - held MyDx portable analyzer to test for the presence of toxic chemicals or elements in water in about six minutes.

Elizabeth Grossman «Chasing Molecules» — unseen chemicals going around the world, Pthalate Sex Changers for You, Toxic Chemicals in Your Home, Toxic Portfolio, Children's Chemical Burden, EPA Conflict, Big Companies Re-Think PVC, Toxic Consumer Products, UK Pesticides and Prostrate Cancer, Waste in the Philippines, Toxic Arctic Orcas Are Us, DOW Nemagon Poisons the Third World, Arsenic in Drinking Water, Mad About Mercury, Toxic Time Bomb: Endocrine Disruptors, too many more...

I personally use a combination carbon filter and reverse osmosis water filter in my home, it's the best tasting water I've ever had and the system uses a 4 - step process to remove about 128 toxic chemicals and gasses from tap water.

Awareness about the importance of cleansing and detoxifying our bodies (and minds) has grown in recent decades due to the increasing amount of harmful, and often plainly toxic, substances that are present today in our air, water, soils and food, as well as the slew of synthetic products we use and are subjected to daily.

So life still happens and as much as you and I can do the things to try to create these little bubbles of you know, a nutrition bubble and lifestyle, and all these great little parts of our ecosystem, we still operate in an ecosystem that is generally pretty toxic in terms of all the things that are out in the air, food, water, soil and you're going — you're going to come across stuff and it is just about what do you do to increase your resilience against these things once you kill them off, like you said was some of the post infection support, you know, people may hear — hear this and think oh kill, kill, kill, but eventually we're strengthening us, too, as the host and so that's why you and I, you know, maybe we take an extra day off or we go spend some more time in nature because that's the stuff that's going to heal you in the long term.

Yes, there is a lot of nonsense written about the toxicity of colloidal silver, but tap water is probably more toxic, especially if you live in a big city and drink plenty of it.

Add to that all the CRAP you have been conditioned to believe that you NEED for your hair and body like all that toxic shampoo, conditioner, body wash, shave gel, hair gel, makeup, body lotion, facial serums, eye cream, etc and you have a lot more to worry about than just your drinking water.

It is much more important to sweat any way you can — hot bath, steam room, Jacuzzi, etc. - than to worry about whether or not the water you are sweating in is toxic.

I'm also skeptical of claim about Borax; as with anything, the issue is quantity absorbed, e.g., even water can be toxic if you ingest too much.

Still, she worries about the effects that toxic tap water will have on her sons.

For tougher areas only small amounts of non ‑ toxic chemicals and water is ever needed, and so cleaning staff don't have to lug heavy buckets of water about the building, making the whole process more efficient.

They hunt just about any kind of meat, from deer and rodents to water buffalo and even their own young, releasing a toxic venom that incapacitates the prey before eating hooves, hides, and even bones.

And the percentage who do worry a great deal — 37 % — is still well less than a majority, and in fact lower than the percentage who worry a great deal about such environmental issues as pollution of drinking water, pollution of lakes and reservoirs, and toxic waste in the soil.

«The shocking part about the fight to get AB 888 passed in California is that plastics are a major but totally avoidable form of toxic pollution in a state with limited water resources,» said Andria Ventura, Toxics Program Manager for Clean Water Acwater resources,» said Andria Ventura, Toxics Program Manager for Clean Water AcWater Action.

But we will never be able to completely ignore and forget about them, because they will not go away, ever present with the potential for dreadful air and water pollution from the toxic contents contained within.

Since 1982, little has changed about the toxic pollution coal - fired power plants are allowed to dump in water, although change was on its way.

I collected about 50 gallons of rain water which I might use to flush the toilet, since it's too toxic to give to my plants.

And since Exxon never told her that breathing crude oil was toxic, she didn't think twice about spraying hot water onto the oily rocks.

Send a letter to the Enbridge CEO, letting him know that some issues — like toxic tar sands water — should not be fibbed about.

Because Bo and Maria spoke about the contaminated water in their communities» wells, the streams running black with dead fish near their homes, the toxic air coming in and out of their lungs, and the grave health risks of living near mountaintop removal mining sites.

I sometimes wonder if there is a «good» environmentalism (which is about recycling, saving endangered species, and fighting toxic air and water pollution), and a «bad» environmentalism (which is about climate change, peak oil and overpopulation)...

The percentage expressing a great deal of worry about pollution of drinking water, as well as contamination of soil and water by toxic waste, increased by seven percentage points.

Sure, tax cuts, grants and loans are fairly easy to account for, but what about military deployments to secure foreign oil supplies, or infrastructure costs like roads and transmission lines, or the seemingly endless stream of external costs linked to carbon emissions, toxic air and water pollutants, higher health care costs and missed work days?

That would get about 50 % of the carbon into inert charcoal while destroying germs, drugs and most toxics greatly reducing water pollution problems.

More in the Globe and Mail More on Bisphenol A in BPA in TreeHugger: Fast Company on the Real Story Behind Bisphenol A BPA Update: Canada Declares it Toxic, FDA Chair's Donor was Michigan's «First Polluter» FDA Chair Studying BPA Took $ 5 Million Donation From BPA Supporter Final Report on Bisphenol A: It May Harm Kids FDA Says BPA Is Safe For Babies Bisphenol A: How Wal - Mart Became the New FDA Quotes of the Day: Opinions on the FDA Declaring BPA Safe Don't Buy A Nalgene Water Bottle Until You Read This Nalgene Dumps Bisphenol A Like Hot Potato: Possible Effects of BPA More Bad News About Bisphenol A: It Interferes with Chemotherapy Treatments Yet Another Bisphenol A Pile - on: Linked to Heart Disease, Diabetes and Liver Problems New Study: BPA May Make You Stupid and Depressed Sources of BPA: Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce Bisphenol A Could Be In Your Teeth BPA Danger may be greater from Tin Cans than Water Bottles Polycarbonate Water bottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes On Phthalates in TreeHugger: Do Babies Exposed to Phthalates Have Smaller Penises?

Via Green Daily More on BPA in TreeHugger: BPA Update: Canada Declares it Toxic, FDA Chair's Donor was Michigan's «First Polluter» FDA Chair Studying BPA Took $ 5 Million Donation From BPA Supporter Final Report on Bisphenol A: It May Harm Kids FDA Says BPA Is Safe For Babies Bisphenol A: How Wal - Mart Became the New FDA Quotes of the Day: Opinions on the FDA Declaring BPA Safe Don't Buy A Nalgene Water Bottle Until You Read This Nalgene Dumps Bisphenol A Like Hot Potato: Possible Effects of BPA More Bad News About Bisphenol A: It Interferes with Chemotherapy Treatments Yet Another Bisphenol A Pile - on: Linked to Heart Disease, Diabetes and Liver Problems New Study: BPA May Make You Stupid and Depressed Sources of BPA: Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce Bisphenol A Could Be In Your Teeth BPA Danger may be greater from Tin Cans than Water Bottles Polycarbonate Water bottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes On Phthalates in TreeHugger: Do Babies Exposed to Phthalates Have Smaller Penises?

All so the main sponsors of America Recycles day, Nestle waters and the American Chemistry Council, (which never saw a toxic disposable chemical it didn't love) can keep making us feel good about picking up their garbage and storing it for them.

We write about U.S. Supreme Court decisions, regulatory actions, and state and national legislation that affects water resource management, toxic waste disposal, renewable energy, air quality, land use, and more.

Opposition to the project has centred on concerns about climate change, as well as about spills on land (already happened) and water, toxic fumes from the marine terminal and tank farm, fire and leaks from the latter (with no response plan in place), and earthquakes affecting the tunneled pipeline section.

When the governor's office discovered just how toxic the water was, they decided to keep quiet about it and covered up the extent of the damage being done to Flint's residents, most notably the lead affecting the children, causing irreversible and permanent brain damage.

Venezia v. Coldwell Banker Sammis Realty (270 A.D. 2d 480)- buyer's action against seller for fraud for failing to disclose toxic contamination of untapped ground water beneath the property and surrounding area dismissed; cause of action against brokers severed; buyer's claim of fraud against seller was extinguished upon closing as a result of specific merger clause in contract of sale; moreover, buyer's failed to allege that seller made any representation about the condition of the land's subsurface or groundwater and did not allege that seller engaged in concealment or otherwise deceitful conduct designed to prevent the discovery of such contamination; seller is under no duty to speak; salesperson of one of the defendant real estate agencies represented to buyer that the house was in good condition