Sentences with phrase «chemical spilled into»

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

I remember when a chemical company in Basel had a chemical spill into the Rhine a few years ago, the environmental jawboners were lamenting how the Rhine would be dead for decades.

Not exact matches

While the EPA did not find any clear evidence that fracking, properly executed, caused chemicals to seep through rock fissures into the water supply, it did document well failures and above - ground spills affecting drinking water.

The 100s of MILLIONS of TONS of chemical fertilizers it takes to sqeeze more out of the already critically depleted US corn - wheat belt runs off down the Miss Riv into the Gulf, hence an ever - growing DEAD ZONE the size of NJ - a worse crisis than BP spill.

One way might be to keep an eye out for an exoplanet that has been messed up with chemical pollution or is spilling light into space (see «To spot an alien, follow the pollution trail»).

In 2005, water supplies to the northeastern city of Harbin had to be cut off after an explosion at a chemical plant on the Songhua River spilled benzene into the water, pushing levels to more than 100 times safe limits.

In 2005, water supplies to the northeastern city of Harbin were cut off after an explosion at a chemical plant spilled benzene into the Songhua River, pushing levels to more than 100 times safe limits.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

This comes into play with the oil spill example as students learn about the chemical properties of water, oil and detergents, and how these substances interact with the environment.

It capsizes and hundreds of tonnes of oily sludges laced with toxic chemicals spill out into an area of marine conservation.

This could involve placing the learner into the middle of a disaster like a chemical spill or the aftermath of a hurricane, or into a more benign environment like a retail store where a person is in the process of shop lifting a smartphone.

Without knowing the danger they can hurt themselves by jumping into the toilet or shower or by spilling cleaning chemicals on themselves.

It has now been one week since the Exxon Mobil Pegasus oil pipeline ruptured in Mayflower, Arkansas spilling an unknown amount of oil and chemicals into a suburban neighborhood.

The billions of tons of coal combustion waste produced by power plants needs to be stored somewhere, often in waste sites that are inadequately engineered to avoid dangerous spills or leaching of hazardous chemicals into groundwater supplies.

Every step of the tar sands process, from mine, to pipeline, to refinery, to the gas tank, to the tailpipe releases toxic chemicals into the air and water, and threatens communities and wildlife with spills and contamination.

«The dispersant chemicals used to clean up oil spills have the unintended effect of transforming crude oil into a toxic mist able to travel for miles and penetrate deep into human lungs, new research has found.»

Despite spilling tens, if not hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil and chemicals into an Arkansas neighborhood, thanks to a loophole in a law from 1980, ExxonMobil will not be paying into a federal oil spill cleanup fund because the oil they spilled is not the right type of oil.

Yesterday, the New York Times sneaks into an Inner Mongolian town overrun by a chemical spill essentially ordered by local officials — two years after federal orders to close culprit factories or build treatment plants went unheeded, largely to «protect» the local economy.

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