Sentences with phrase «contaminating local water supplies»

Environmentalists and residents of Parker County, Texas, were dismayed last year when the EPA dropped an investigation into complaints that fracking by Range Resources was contaminating local water supplies with methane.

Despite concerns that fracking could seriously deplete or contaminate local water supplies, in 2010 Pennsylvania issued more than 3,300 natural gas permits in the Marcellus Shale.

These substances eventually find their way into the soil where they can contaminate the local water supplies.

Not exact matches

The state's action came about 16 months after a village resident, Michael Hickey, alerted local government officials that PFOA had contaminated the public water supply.

Certain harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have the potential to produce dangerous toxins that can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people, harm aquatic life, and interfere with lake recreation activities.

Fallout from the discovery of the toxic chemical in the water supply of Hoosick Falls later erupted into a war of finger - pointing between local, state and federal agencies after questions emerged in late 2015 about why it took at least 14 months before residents were warned to stop drinking from the village's contaminated wells.

The Democrat on Thursday proposed a $ 65 million plan to study, treat and prevent the blooms, which can contaminate local drinking water supplies, sicken people and animals in the water and interfere with recreation.

And the exhibit plays to local concerns over contaminated water supplies, fracking - induced earthquakes, methane leaks, noise, dust and dirt.

A hypothetical example of sharing: A local water supply is contaminated with a pathogenic E. coli strain that is not antibiotic - resistant.

Here are some other top successes: destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons globally as well as local stores of DDT in Tanzania; new cooking stoves to eliminate indoor air pollution in Ghana; separating copper mine tailings from the local water supply in Chile; alternative fuels to reduce air pollution in New Delhi as well as treating arsenic in well water in West Bengal; removing lead - contaminated soil in the Dominican Republic and Russia; reducing mercury vapors from artisanal gold mining in Indonesia; and new sewage systems to clean up contaminated Suzhou Creek in Shanghai.

PFOA entered the local water table near the DuPont plant and contaminated the potable water supply used by more than 100,000 people.

If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for «older» water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).