Sentences with phrase «chemical spills in»

As floods increase due to climate change, the risk of toxic chemical spills in these areas will also increase.

New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has been working with IBM to clean up a chemical spill in the Southern Tier town of Endicott for years now.

You can have chemicals spilled in your eyes, can get burned badly by many different parts of cars, you can get smashed by a car, or even smashed by a tool, possibly even a flying car part.

Striding through rooms lined with a million flowers, slipped between crisply tailored frocks in textured black and grey, four silhouettes from last summer's Dior haute couture collection stood apart, like a chemical spill in clean water.

This town was ground zero for the Elk River Chemical spill in early 2014.

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thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

Holds chemical tote in correct position to capture spills and stops tote from being pushed too far onto tank.

The spilling of several thousand gallons of chemicals at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania shows a ban on hydraulic fracturing is necessary, Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, said this afternoon.

The Times Union recently reported that DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has been invested in the strike movement, warning Boss in a recent letter that he will soon cite the company's violations of chemical spill and hazardous waste handling

The layer of sand Honeywell has applied to the Onondaga Lake bottom to keep toxic mercury and other chemicals in place has failed at least three times since 2012, spilling wastes onto areas of the lake that had been relatively clean.

Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:06 AM - WBEN Newsroom North Collins, NY (WBEN)- A chemical spill at a manufacturing plant in North Collins has forced the evacuation of the plant, and the lockdown of a nearby school.

The debate about using dispersants is becoming increasingly politicized and acrimonious, and the National Academy of Sciences has recently assembled a committee of scientists, government officials, and industry to evaluate the use of chemical dispersants in oil spill response.

«There is a chemical toxicity to the dispersant compound that in many ways is worse than oil,» said Richard Charter, a foremost expert on marine biology and oil spills who is a senior policy advisor for Marine Programs for Defenders of Wildlife and is chairman of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council.

Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill occurred and identify its source.

Despite being specialized for epidemics, Marathe says, the tool's underlying geographic models and synthetic populations are general, and they can be applied to other kinds of disasters, such as chemical spills, hurricanes, and cascading failures in power networks.

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.

A newly designed metallic soap reacts to a magnetic field, a first in soap research that could lead to better control of cleanup chemicals in situations like aquatic oil spills.

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.

Since the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have studied how communities of bacteria that grew exponentially after the disaster helped to eat away at the vast range of chemicals there, but little was known about the genetic underpinnings of the process.

Tap water in Charleston, West Virginia, and nearby communities will remain unsafe in the coming days, an official said on Saturday as residents spent a third day unable to bathe, shower or drink from the faucet due to a chemical spill tainting the Elk River.

President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for the state of West Virginia on Friday, ordering federal aid in the aftermath of a chemical spill that has left up to 300,000 people without tap water, closed schools and businesses.

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

More than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate spilled from a Union Carbide - owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing more than 20,000 people in the world's worst chemical disaster.

The Centre for Urgent Environmental Assistance, based in Geneva, will provide emergency technical assistance to countries that would not otherwise be able to contain or monitor damage from disasters such as oil spills and chemical accidents.

«A chemical burn should develop immediately, as it does if you spill battery acid on your hand,» said Dr. Spechler, who holds the Berta M. & Cecil O. Patterson Chair in Gastroenterology.

In the area by the spill itself, «anything that's in the upper water column is going to be exposed» to oil chemicals, Shirley sayIn the area by the spill itself, «anything that's in the upper water column is going to be exposed» to oil chemicals, Shirley sayin the upper water column is going to be exposed» to oil chemicals, Shirley says.

It can also be used for collection of toxic waste, chemicals or oil spill and in drug delivery systems, for odor control and sanitation after fire.

Exposure to the slurry of water and other chemicals formed after coal is washed would be more dangerous to human health than exposure to MCMH — and there have been numerous coal slurry floods and spills in West Virginia and U.S. history.

In the midst of this scene stands Ian Buist, a chemical engineer who works with the U.S. Minerals Management Service, putting the finishing touches on a spill.

Chemical engineers use a helicopter equipped with a flamethrower — known as a helitorch — to set fire to a test spill of crude oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 1994.

In addition to causing obvious, immediate dangers such as drowning in a flood, extreme events can leave people without food and shelter, expose them to toxic chemical spills and facilitate the spread of diseasIn addition to causing obvious, immediate dangers such as drowning in a flood, extreme events can leave people without food and shelter, expose them to toxic chemical spills and facilitate the spread of diseasin a flood, extreme events can leave people without food and shelter, expose them to toxic chemical spills and facilitate the spread of disease.

As part of our coverage of the West Virginia chemical spill, C&EN contacted a number of ACS members living in the affected area.

Unlike the Zone in the Tarkovsky film, the Shimmer has been kept completely secret from the public (its location in the swampy marshlands of northern Florida has aided in its remaining hidden, although a small town had to be evacuated under the auspices of a chemical spill).

After surviving a car accident, Michelle (Winstead) finds herself alone in a bunker with two men and a supposed deadly chemical spill outside.

In classes with more than 24 students, 58 percent had a mishap — ranging from a minor chemical spill to an accident with injury — in the previous year, according to a 2001 survey of Texas teachers conducted by Ms. WesIn classes with more than 24 students, 58 percent had a mishap — ranging from a minor chemical spill to an accident with injury — in the previous year, according to a 2001 survey of Texas teachers conducted by Ms. Wesin the previous year, according to a 2001 survey of Texas teachers conducted by Ms. West.

Consulting the colorful compasses and graphs of the WeatherNet Classroom Web site, which track data captured by equipment mounted on the school's rooftop, the class puzzled over how best to survive a chemical spill on a nearby highway or the fallout of a small - scale atomic explosion in downtown Washington, located just 25 miles south of this quiet suburban community.

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.

When chemicals are spilled in urban centers, sprayed on farm fields, and synthesized in factories, they become hitchhikers embarking on a global voyage.

Whether it's a hurricane, chemical spill, or large - scale cruelty case, animals depend on veterinarians to respond in an efficient and effective manner.

Remember several months ago the news of a german shepherd who had been standing in spilled commercial oven cleaner, and received chemical burns to her back feet that had burned her to the bone?

You certainly do not have to be in the path of a hurricane in order to need to evacuate: tornadoes, fire, flood, earthquakes and even chemical spills could force you from your home with little notice.

But in the early 1950s, in the years just before his tragic death at age 44 in an alcohol - fueled car crash, Pollock was experimenting with a new way of confronting his surface, spilling black enamel paint — the kind you might use on outdoor ironwork — onto raw cotton duck canvas, a clashing, angry union of synthetic industrial chemical and unprimed organic substrate.

Here's an excerpt from their post which focuses on flaws in the Toxic Substances Control Act as revealed by the history of the chemical that spilled in West Virginia — 4 - methylcyclohexane methanol, or MCHM:

«Cleaning your home can come at a high price — cancer - causing chemicals in the air, an asthma attack from fumes or serious skin burns from an accidental spill,» said Jane Houlihan, EWG senior vice president for research and co-author of the EWG Cleaners Hall of Shame.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in

So are many others; The Environmental Working Group notes that «Cleaning your home can come at a high price — cancer - causing chemicals in the air, an asthma attack from fumes or serious skin burns from an accidental spill.»

There are many technologies that have been developed to clean up spills more effectively, but the first hurdle is quick and accurate detection of chemical pollutants in the ocean.

While they may help clean up oil spills, chemicals known as dispersants may actually cause much more harm to the corals than the oil itself, according to research done by a team of marine scientists from Israel's National Institute of Oceanography in Haifa.