Sentences with phrase «air contamination in»

According to Critica newspaper, the need to reduce noise and air contamination in the city is urgent.

Fungi - induced paint deterioration and air contamination in the Assiut University hospital, Egypt — Ismail R. Abdel - Rahim — Indoor and Buility Environment

Not exact matches

The biggest hurdle for the pro-industry side: The rapid expansion of fracking over the last five years has resulted in confirmed cases of drinking water contamination, a house explosion, and air pollution.

Then there is the concern of oil contamination in ambient air.

In addition, measurements now cover all three forms of oil contamination — aerosols, vapor and liquid — providing a true picture of air quality.

Nutrient surpluses might result in nutrient losses which could subsequently lead to water and air contamination and eutrophication.

By circulating warm air in an enclosed chamber, Calesca eliminates the risk of contamination through contact with water.

On Friday, NY1's «Inside City Hall» aired a special seven - minute report on the water contamination story in Hoosick Falls (For those of you not in the TV news business, my nightly packages generally run about 2 minutes, so anything over that is considered a luxury).

New York in August declared Stewart Air National Guard Base a state Superfund site, with historic use of firefighting foam the likely cause of the contamination.

New York's senior senator says he will introduce legislation requiring the U.S. Air Force to pay for the cleanup if, in fact, Stewart Air National Guard base is found responsible for the contamination.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says he will introduce legislation that would require the Air Force to identify the source of water contamination in Newburgh and pay to clean it up if a base nearby is responsible.

New York state and local officials have called repeatedly on the U.S. Department of Defense to take responsibility for cleaning up PFOS contamination at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney has penned a letter to U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, calling for an immediate investigation into the possible cause of PFOS contamination in Newburgh's main drinking water source — outfalls into retention ponds at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.

State regulators blame the use of firefighting foams at Stewart Air National Guard Base for the contamination and, in response, have funded Newburgh's purchase of water from New York City and a new filtration system designed to eliminate PFOS from water.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber, from Ithaca College, says the compilation of results and on going research created by the group shows numerous potential dangers, including everything from worsening air pollution and water contamination to potential earthquakes and increased crime due to the boom in the gas extraction business.

Heitzman says the Newburgh PFOS contamination is in a different watershed and comes from Stewart Air National Guard base, where there were releases of highly concentrated firefighting foam from storage tank leaks and training exercises.

In the gleaming new Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research, opened in 2014 at the University of Oklahoma, positive air pressure keeps out external contamination, and intense ultraviolet lamps are on standby to sterilize the lab between useIn the gleaming new Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research, opened in 2014 at the University of Oklahoma, positive air pressure keeps out external contamination, and intense ultraviolet lamps are on standby to sterilize the lab between usein 2014 at the University of Oklahoma, positive air pressure keeps out external contamination, and intense ultraviolet lamps are on standby to sterilize the lab between uses.

As the researchers were extremely careful to exclude contamination with fibers from the air, they are confident that the fish had ingested the fibers in the sea.

That waste, which contains microbes that can make humans sick, is collected in open pits or sprayed on fields as fertilizer, risking contamination of the air, water, and soil.

An exhaust vent leading from one of the facility's «clean rooms» to the roof lacked a filter or screen, for example, and flaws in the air handling system could expose sterile drugs to microbial contamination during processing.

Concerned about the possibility that astronauts might unwittingly be exposed to pathogens that lurk in a spacecraft's surfaces or in air filters — biological contamination has been found in both the ISS and Russia's MIR before — NASA asked researchers at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, to assess the problem.

By performing the experiment in a vacuum, Yamaguchi hoped to eliminate any possibility that helium - 4 came from contamination by the surrounding air.

Having shown that chemically modified magnetite (Fe2CrO4) meets the basic criteria required for an air stable, visible light photocatalyst, the investigators plan to carry out experiments in which they will transfer freshly grown Fe2CrO4 surfaces to a photoelectrochemical cell under a dry nitrogen atmosphere to avoid picking up surface carbon contamination.

The researchers found that due to the confined cabin space, with the worst ventilation conditions, as well as in peak contamination, that the evidence indicates that smoking in cars produces fine particle pollution concentrations which are very rarely found in studies on air quality.

Cover the container with the lid about two - thirds (to stop any contamination in the air getting in) and leave for about 15 minutes to let the steam vent; if you cover the container entirely and put it straight in the fridge, it will condense and turn into water.

The air we breathe, water we drink, food we eat, and even the homes we live in — all have some level of toxic contamination.

Also, the actives in it are too far down on the ingredient list to make any sort of real difference in the skin and even if they could, the fact that it's not an airtight container but in a jar, they then run the risk of getting disintegrated and inactive by air and cross contamination.

Air Quality Whilst it is easy to see dirt and contamination in buildings, air cleanliness is much more difficult to identify and therefore it is often ignored as a potential health hazaAir Quality Whilst it is easy to see dirt and contamination in buildings, air cleanliness is much more difficult to identify and therefore it is often ignored as a potential health hazaair cleanliness is much more difficult to identify and therefore it is often ignored as a potential health hazard.

Is the school willing or able to invest in air filtration units that will effectively remove harmful and toxic airborne contamination?

The caliper should then be cleaned very thoroughly to prevent any dirt getting in it, reassembled and bled properly (including bleeding the other side and the rear brakes, in the correct order and using the correct type of fluid, both of which will be specified in the workshop manual) to make sure there is no air in the system - the fluid must come from a new, sealed bottle to ensure there is no contamination, and you should bleed the system through fully to replace the old fluid.

Every stall in the facility is an independent unit with its own air circulation to avoid cross contamination between the isolated horses.

We have a massive trash pile accumulating in the North Pacific, huge dead zones (no life due to lack of oxygen) along the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coastline, acid rain, mercury contamination of ponds and lakes in the northeast, poor air quality, rapid loss of fish and bird species in the past 30 years and extensive loss of forests and wetlands.

Those operations have brought unprecedented air and water pollution, cropland and wildlife habitat wastelands, widespread radiation contamination, and cancer and lung disease in workers and local residents.

Elevated waterborne disease outbreaks have been reported in the weeks following heavy rainfall, 59 although other variables may affect these associations.60 Water intrusion into buildings can result in mold contamination that manifests later, leading to indoor air quality problems.

Also proper location of crop fields in relation to sources of contamination is important in order to reduce the effects of air pollution.

In addition to avoiding the risk of future radioactive contamination of air, water, and crops, Japan would save tens of billions of dollars annually on imported energy.

There is contamination of the air in the bubble by water; different results are obtained if the ice is crushed or melted to obtain the air sample; it takes decades for the air bubble to form; the raw data was smoothed out by a 70 year moving average that removed the great annual variability found in the 19th century and Stomata Index (SI) records; closer examination revealed a major flaw in the hypothesis because temperature rises before CO2.

Water intrusion into buildings can result in mold contamination that manifests later, leading to indoor air quality problems.

In light of the air and water contamination and climate - disrupting emissions associated with fracking, the last thing communities need is rules that threaten their ability to regulate it.

Major Environmental Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal - fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and sea coasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; ground water contamination from toxic waste.

-- An owner or operator of a facility conducting natural gas operations in unconventional formations including development, production, transmission and processing shall submit to the department a source report identifying and quantifying actual air contaminant emissions from any air contamination source.

The news of the launch of the REVA car in Santiago comes a few weeks after air - contamination in the capital of Chile peaked and the government had to call for emergency measures to control the pollution levels (see our coverage in the post Chile Fights Critical Air Pollution in Santiagair - contamination in the capital of Chile peaked and the government had to call for emergency measures to control the pollution levels (see our coverage in the post Chile Fights Critical Air Pollution in SantiagAir Pollution in Santiago).

Yet despite the continued health problems and persistent environmental contamination, the North Carolina - based Nucor Corporation was just granted the air permit it needs to open yet another plant in the area, an iron and steelmaking complex.

Sources::: Chile looses fight against air pollution (La Nacion newspaper, in Spanish):: Michele Bachelet calls to fulfill restriction measures to diminish contamination (El Mercurio, in Spanish)

«Energy reform will enhance these [negative] impacts and contribute to worsening climate change,» said Ampugnani, «in the blind quest for more oil, which causes contamination of land, rivers, seas and the air of our cities.»

Carine is a member of several scientific committees (including INTERSOL, relating to soil contamination and ATMOSF» AIR, relating to air issues), and is also involved in various environmental law working groups and think - tanks.

Lightfoot represented a major pigment manufacturer in a series of air contamination cases in Mississippi and has handled a number of smaller claims of air contamination.

Toxic exposure to benzene normally occurs through inhalation of tainted air (in areas with high car traffic) or through water contamination.

His environmental and tort litigation experience includes dozens of products liability actions in California State and Federal District Courts and multi-district litigation proceedings in the Southern District of New York that arise out of MTBE contamination of drinking water aquifers, as well as actions brought under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act («CERCLA»), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act («RCRA»), California Proposition 65, the Clean Air Act, and various state and federal criminal laws, environmental laws, or tort doctrines.

Many Canadians expect our government to protect us from contamination and other environmental harms in outdoor air, water and land.