Sentences with phrase «by water contamination»

Gillibrand said that because so little is known about the effects of PFOA, especially when young children are exposed, legislators should «rewrite the law» that allows for medical monitoring of 9/11 first responders to include residents affected by water contamination.

The legislation, inspired by the water contamination crisis in the Rensselaer County, now heads to Cuomo's desk.

Mireles said, «Our intention is to bring and share what we learned last year in Flint, Michigan and Parkersburg, West Virginia, two other communities impacted by water contamination.

Students from Academia Avance in Los Angeles, California, traveled to Hoosick Falls as part of their senior project about communities impacted by water contamination.

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Consequences like water contamination have been established, but often it is not clear if they were directly caused by fracking or the result of sloppy drilling practices.

The North Dakota project, opposed by a Native American tribe fearful of water contamination from potential oil leaks, had stalled in Democrat Barack Obama's administration.

The ELA cost $ 2 million a year to maintain, but its research saved governments around the world billions of dollars by preventing water contamination, Schindler said.

The contamination could have started as early as April 2014 when an emergency manager decided to cut costs by making the Flint River the city's water source.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been linked by some anti-fracking organisations to water contamination.

In addition, farming organically also reduces ground and surface water contamination by refraining from the use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, particularly important in areas prone to water shortages.

Waterworks subsidise conversion to organic agriculture in water protection areas as an economically efficient solution for reducing the cost of cleaning - up drinking water by minimising the nitrate and pesticide contamination of groundwater.

As a result, in some regions of Germany and France, waterworks subsidise conversion to organic agriculture in water protection areas as an economically efficient solution for reducing the cost of cleaning - up drinking water by minimising the nitrate and pesticide contamination of groundwater.

Despite microbial contamination of birth pool water during delivery, antibiotic prophylaxis, as indicated by clinical and laboratory suspicion of infection, was administered to only 0.98 % of babies after water birth versus 1.64 % of those after land delivery...

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

«Although there have been actions taken to address these problems, many of my constituents are deeply concerned with potential ongoing health risks to their families, delayed and confused responses by the state and federal agencies involved, and lack of accountability to find out what happened and why it was allowed to go on after the initial detection of the contamination of their water supply.»

The report released by the Senate Health and Senate Environmental Conservation committees, comes more than a year after state officials responded to cases of chemical contamination of water in rural communities like Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh — the result of the area's industrial past.

New York's public water supplies need stronger protections to ensure clean drinking water and prevent contamination that could result in health problems, according to a report released today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

«Over 100 days ago by the terms of subpoenas issued by the New York State Senate, Saint - Gobain, Taconic Plastics and Honeywell were to have handed over documents related to the water contamination crises they helped create,» Hoylman said.

The questions came at the first of these two joint Senate and Assembly public hearings, but the talk was dominated by the contamination of drinking water in Hoosick Falls, as well as issues that have developed in Petersburgh and Newburgh.

Legislation from Sen. Kathy Marchione and Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin would permit the village to issue serial bonds for «extraordinary expenses incurred by the village as a direct result of the discovery of the contamination of the village's municipal water supply,» according to the bill memorandum.

And fueled by drinking water contamination in Hoosick Falls and Newburgh, there is companion legislation that requires nearly all public drinking water supplies in the state to be tested for emerging contaminants.

His frustration boiled over last week, when Flanagan reiterated to reporters he would not hold hearings on water issues in the aftermath of a PFOA contamination in the village in order to assess the response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration (Conservative critics of the Senate GOP have been deeply critical of the conference's relationship with Cuomo, especially in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act).

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a Republican vying for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP lawmaker Hugh Farley, called on the conference he wants to join to hold hearings on the PFOA water contamination issue in Hoosick Falls as well as water issues statewide.

Wastewater contamination, water quality, and Montauk beach erosion were the most serious concerns of 200 residents who responded to a telephone survey initiated by Paul Giardina, a Republican candidate for the East Hampton Town Board, while noise...

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.

The governor's proposal follows a report released by two State Senate committees earlier this month detailing water quality and contamination issues around the state.

Village leaders were first alerted to the water contamination in July 2014 by a resident, Michael Hickey, whose father had died of kidney cancer.

In the case of water contamination in Hoosick Falls, a village - produced timeline that describes months of outreach to elected officials has been disputed by several state and federal lawmakers.

The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.

The Cuomo administration has defended its response to the water contamination crisis in the village, the result of PFOA from a plant owned by Saint Gobain seeping into the village's water supply.

Also passing the Senate last night, after considerable back and forth during which its sponsor, Capital Region Republican Sen. Kathy Marchione, twisted herself into a political pretzel, was legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution — a measure intended to help Hoosick Falls residents who are struggling to deal with PFOA contamination of their drinking water.

«The state's comprehensive response to help Hoosick Falls recover from water contamination caused by Saint Gobain and Honeywell has been unprecedented.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration signaled Thursday it will willingly participate in an investigation being called by the House Oversight Committee into water contamination issues in upstate New York.

Though billed as a hearing on statewide water concerns, much of the morning and early afternoon has been consumed by the PFOA contamination of drinking water in the rural upstate New York village.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin on Tuesday questioned why the Democratic - led Assembly is yet to hold hearings on water quality issues around the state, first proposed earlier this year after the village of Hoosick Falls's municipal water supply was impacted by a chemical contamination.

A manufacturing plant in Hoosick Falls that has been the focus of the contamination of the village's water supply has been designated a federal Superfund site by the EPA.

«Water contamination affects the water we drink, cook with and bathe in — and the dramatic increase in contamination of our bays, beaches, rivers and streams can not be tolerated, let alone endorsed by a responsible environmental group.&rWater contamination affects the water we drink, cook with and bathe in — and the dramatic increase in contamination of our bays, beaches, rivers and streams can not be tolerated, let alone endorsed by a responsible environmental group.&rwater we drink, cook with and bathe in — and the dramatic increase in contamination of our bays, beaches, rivers and streams can not be tolerated, let alone endorsed by a responsible environmental group.»

A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.

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

The closing is another blow for a small community that was hit with chemical contamination of its drinking water supply from a factory owned by its other major employer, Saint Gobain.

HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — The first personal injury suit in connection to water contamination in Hoosick Falls has been filed by Weitz and Luxenberg.

It took the efforts of the group Riverkeeper, which advocates for clean water in the Hudson River, to convince the DEC to investigate sewage contamination from a discharge pipe maintained by the City of Troy and Rensselaer County Sewer districts.

The mailer touts the scheduled hearing on water quality in Hoosick Falls on Tuesday in the village, which has been rocked by a contamination of the chemical PFOA in the village's drinking water.

A joint statement issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health pushed back on the comments made by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday that the state did not act swiftly when warned of a chemical contamination in Hoosick Falls's drinking water.

A new study on managing wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing finds the biggest risk of contamination to drinking water supplies occurs during the disposal process.

The community attended a meeting in our high school auditorium that was presented by Healthy Hoosick Water, Inc. regarding the PFOA contamination issue in the Village of Hoosick Falls municipal water suWater, Inc. regarding the PFOA contamination issue in the Village of Hoosick Falls municipal water suwater supply.

Two companies that operated a manufacturing plant blamed for polluting water supplies in Hoosick Falls are seeking dismissal of a federal class - action lawsuit filed on behalf of the residents affected by the contamination.

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.

The students, who designed and delivered their own power point presentation to the entire student body at the schools» auditorium, say the town leaders, as well as state and federal governments, have been too slow to respond to water contamination deemed by the EPA to be so serious that they are no longer allowed to drink, cook or bathe with it.

Marc Edwards — Dr. Edwards was recognized by AAAS for his efforts to apply his engineering expertise to revealing dangerous levels of lead contamination in water supplies in Flint, Michigan.