Sentences with phrase «contaminating water supplies with»

Vermont Governor Phil Scott recently signed legislation aimed at holding polluters accountable for contaminating water supplies with the chemical PFOA.

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environmental issues directly associated with animal agriculture (such as air pollution and contaminated drainage from factory farming into water supplies) and to help lessen our over consumption of resources including land, water, and fossil fuels

Faced with limited financial resources and, in many cases, a contaminated water supply, babies were soon being fed with diluted bottles of disease - laced formula.

Today, unless you live in an area with well water or have a contaminated city water supply, it's only suggested to sterilize new bottles and nipples before the first use.

We know their pockets are being lined, but will they be supplied with fresh water when we all have contaminated water?

The agency also released a letter Tuesday that it signed last week with five other states calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a multi-state health study using data from a multitude of communities where perfluorinated chemicals have contaminated drinking water supplies.

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.

The municipal water supply in Hoosick Falls, a village in Rensselaer County near the Vermont border, was found to have been contaminated with the chemical PFOA from a nearby plastics plant run by Saint - Gobain.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo met privately at the state Capitol with school and government leaders from Hoosick Falls about ongoing efforts to deal with the discovery of a toxic chemical that contaminated public and private water supplies in the Rensselaer County community

Three New York lawmakers — Schumer, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — are calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to immediately test the city of Newburgh's water supply, which has been found to be contaminated with a toxic chemical.

HOOSICK FALLS — Members of the village board here decided to table a proposed agreement with companies held responsible for contaminating the village water supply after residents voice their objections Thursday night.

The declaration would allow federal resources to be used to help clean up areas in the village contaminated with a man - made chemical that polluted public and private water supplies.

The EPA said groundwater that supplies the village's water treatment plant is contaminated with PFOA and also Vinyl Chloride and Dichloroethylene.

The town is installing a well and water supply system for five properties where wells were contaminated with sodium and chloride from the town's road salt stockpile.

Last November, we took you to the small and rural village of Hoosick Falls, which was grappling with a report of contaminated water after elevated levels of the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA was detected in the water supply.

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.

The Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls, which has been grappling with a chemically - tainted water supply, can now begin flushing contaminated water lines after the installation of a temporary filtration system.

Did you know that 663 million people live without safe water supply close to their homes, making them spend countless hours queuing or trekking to distant sources, and coping with the health impacts of using contaminated water?

According to Avella, Cuomo's office has not shed enough light on the medical and scientific sides of the hydrofracking debate, with opponents arguing that water supplies might become contaminated or ruined due to harmful chemicals used in the process.

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

In 1970, city administrators realized arsenic from mountain mineral deposits was contaminating the city's water supply, with exposures of 500 to 800 ppb for the public at large.

Emergency supplies of clean water, soap and water - purifying equipment contained the initial outbreak — the gut bacterium spreads via water contaminated with faeces.

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.

In places where the available water supply is contaminated with disease - causing bacteria, boiling water and allowing it to cool before drinking it is a valuable health measure.

Unfortunately, we live in a world where the food supply is often depleted of nutrients due to over-farming, the water is often contaminated with chemicals, and even the air can contain compounds that cause havoc in the body.

In many areas in the North America and other parts of the world the water that comes out of your tap is contaminated with harmful heavy metals, fluoride, xenoestrogens, petroleum chemicals, and even traces of prescription drugs that are in the water supply.

Because a large percentage of U.S. produce is irrigated with perchlorate - contaminated water, perchlorate is also prevalent in the U.S. food supply.

Throughout the film, Giant and Lord Auch keep the pit supplied with more materials to further contaminate the water.

In flood - prone locations, flush toilets back up and pit latrines overflow contaminating the environment and potentially drinking water supplies — with dire consequences to the public health through water - borne diseases like cholera.

From communities that are dealing with waterways that are contaminated with toxic chemicals from coal ash waste seeping into their waters to communities that are having drinking water supplies contaminated by fracking, our reliance on dirty energy sources is having a huge impact on water quality and quantity.

Here's something else to consider (and worthy of a massive class action lawsuit): the water and sewer systems they «require» you to hook up to are providing you with water contaminated with hundreds of pharmaceuticals; you have no way of knowing what peed - out drugs are still in your water supply because although «they» know it's there, they won't tell you for fear you might object.

It would contaminate fresh water supplies with salt.

One of the harshest charges against fracking, often leveled with apocalyptic intensity by its foes, is that it indiscriminately contaminates vital drinking water supplies.

The fresh water supplies are contaminated with salt water as tides creep farther inland.

She also played a major role in a recent nationwide class action settlement for providers whose water supplies are contaminated with atrazine, an agricultural chemical.

(b) the provision of temporary or permanent alternate water supplies to replace those that the Director has reasonable and probable grounds to believe are or are likely to be contaminated or otherwise interfered with by a contaminant on, in or under the property to which the certificate of property use relates; and

November 1, 2013 - A number of lawsuits have been filed against DuPont Co. alleging the chemical giant knowingly contaminated drinking water supplies with C8 used in its West Virginia plant.

(b) the provision of temporary or permanent alternate water supplies to replace those that the Director has reasonable and probable grounds to believe are or are likely to be contaminated or otherwise interfered with by the works to which the approval or order is related; and