"Cleanup efforts" refers to the actions or activities taken to clean and restore a place or situation. It generally involves removing dirt, debris, or pollutants in order to make something tidy, safe or healthy again.
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Your child might protest, but that last trip to the bathroom might save you a major
cleanup effort in the middle of the night.
Since then the gravity of the disaster has grown more evident
as cleanup efforts have turned into a debacle.
These companies can then sell that low - cost extra benefit on the open market for less money than a small company might pay to make an equal
cleanup effort from scratch.
The disappearance of the mercury was not due to aggressive environmental policies or a wide -
ranging cleanup effort.
In 2012, more than 10 million pounds of trash was collected from beaches and waterways in 97 countries during a
global cleanup effort.
As
modern cleanup efforts had gotten underway, and new environmental assessments needed to be done, a healthy market for water and mud testing had evolved.
He and his crew are now working for BP as part of the
contract cleanup effort, picking up dirty boom and laying clean boom to soak up more oil.
AMY GOODMAN: ExxonMobil continues
cleanup efforts after a ruptured pipeline sprayed thousands of barrels of crude oil across a central Arkansas subdivision, forcing nearly two dozen homes to evacuate.
Disaster recovery volunteers have also included players, coaches and staff from the NFL St. Louis Rams, who helped
with cleanup efforts in Joplin.
Wading River resident Bill Gunther, a member of the Navy's Calverton remediation advisory committee, which has worked with Navy, state and county officials to monitor and coordinate
cleanup efforts at the Grumman site, urged Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to keep the well - drilling unit intact.
BUCHANAN — Crews at the Indian Point nuclear plant Saturday in Westchester County were
continuing cleanup efforts after an undetermined amount of oil spilled into a drainage canal leading to the Hudson River.
He said the state is seeking reimbursement from companies who used the chemical for the money New York is already spending
on cleanup efforts.
From the very beginning of this crisis, the federal government has been in charge of the largest
environmental cleanup effort in our nation's history — an effort led by Admiral Thad Allen, who has almost forty years of experience responding to disasters.
Accident investigation evolved into DWI - Drugs investigation when 7 hours
of cleanup efforts yielded little progress on re-opening highway.
Working directly with NGOs and other beach cleanup organizations, TerraCycle sources the shipments of rigid plastics collected through
beach cleanup efforts, capturing these materials for recycling for the first time, at no cost to participants.
They're looking ahead to fall rains and winter setting in without even knowing what the plan is for the
massive cleanup effort.»
A spokesman for the Chicago Park District
says cleanup efforts involving the Lincoln Park Gun Club at Diversey, which closed in 1991, has already cost them about $ 700,000.
More than 10 families who live on Starlight Road have been given the green light to return but, so far, none have moved back, largely because of the
constant cleanup effort still underway in their front yards.
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organized cleanup efforts across the city on April 21 and help pick up litter, like plastic, on local beaches and neighborhood parks.
The governor says Washington couldn't help so Albany put its own resources into
cleanup efforts across the state.
Ed School students James Croft and Adelina Garcia traveled to New Orleans this past spring break to help with the
ongoing cleanup efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
This move was ostensibly a reaction to the $ 500.0 - million NEM hack that took place at a Japanese exchange last month, but it also comes as part of a
larger cleanup effort from the FSA.
The tiny southern Louisiana island was thrust into the global spotlight as it became a hub for
Gulf cleanup efforts.
The agreement also includes disaster relief for areas still coping with hurricane and
wildfire cleanup efforts and additional funding for opioid treatment, each a priority for Democrats.
Hiring is expected to rebound in the fall as the states of Texas and Florida
resume cleanup efforts in the wake of hurricane season.
In addition, if the district is determined to be the owner of the lake, the district may be eligible for grant funds through the federal Conservation 2000 program, which could be used to assist in
lake cleanup efforts, she added.
Registration and refreshment tables will be set up along the prairie path between 9 a.m. and noon to coordinate
trail cleanup efforts in Wheaton, Glen Ellyn and Villa Park.
Trump plans on slashing the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by a quarter — targeting enforcement, grants for
toxic cleanup efforts, as well as air and water protection programs.
Additionally, the resolution states that any rupture or compromise of the pipeline, even without an explosion or fire, would «require
extraordinary cleanup efforts, could force residents from their homes, and place a large number of residents in close proximity to hazardous materials.»
The 75 - page document, which officials said was reissued simply to insert a pricing sheet, became the July 23 document that yielded the pact for VIP Splash — whose principals knew county officials through an environmental group that volunteered in early
post-Sandy cleanup efforts.
The city is already investigating allegations that disgruntled sanitation workers may have intentionally
slowed cleanup efforts to protest recent budget cuts.
A top Environmental Protection Agency official warned on Monday that federal budget cuts threaten future
brownfields cleanup efforts in the region.
That dramatically improved the air quality for responders and presumably reduced the number of days when the air quality was too poor and responders had to don respirators and / or had to
suspend cleanup efforts.
While many water -
quality cleanup efforts focusing on the reduction of phosphorus have been highly effective, that success can also result in a decrease in microbial processes that remove nitrogen from water.
The proposed budget would also get rid of the Chesapeake Bay Program — a regional partnership
pollution cleanup effort that mainly targets fertilizer and other chemical runoff that enters the bay.
Metallic or free - state mercury gives off vapors so toxic that the Environmental Protection Agency regards the breaking of a thermometer worthy of a nine -
step cleanup effort.