Sentences with phrase «drink toxic water»

TWO pols (one retired... or something like that) from NYC telling Upstaters that we should be happy to drink toxic water — as long as SOMEBODY (mostly people from out - of - state) make some money off of fracking.

«As the federal official who alerted the public about the risk of drinking the toxic water in Hoosick Falls, I continue to be concerned that the state of New York has not learned the lessons from their water crisis,» she said in a statement provided to the Times Union late Tuesday.

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Recent changes to California Proposition 65 — also called the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act — that go into effect in August 2018 will require beverage companies to call out specific chemical names in addition to a warning symbol.

Many processing stages result in large amounts of untreated toxic wastewater being carried into drinking water sources.

California's Prop 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act requires companies to place a warning label on any product they sell within California if it exceeds the level that the State has established as risk - free for a list of over eight hundred chemicals.

According to California's regulations under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly referred to as «Prop 65», which is significantly stricter than the FDA on many levels), there is a «Safe Harbor» list of two classes of chemicals: those that cause reproductive toxicity and those that are considered carcinogens.

And adverse physical surroundings do play a role in children's development, especially when they are literally toxic, as when children are exposed to lead in their drinking water or carbon monoxide in the air they breathe.

In an email to its members, the NYLCV touted Avella's «tireless work» on some of the organization's key agenda items, like getting toxic chemicals out of children's products, promoting clean energy and protecting clean drinking water.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

The two Democrats made their call at Washington Lake, Newburgh's main drinking water supply, where toxic PFOS contamination was found in the spring of 2016.

High schoolers in Hoosick Falls say they are tired of the slow response by the adults in the community, and government, to the toxic substance PFOA which has infiltrated the village water system and made it unsafe to drink.

But Cuomo has yet to set foot in Hoosick Falls, where about 4,000 people can't drink their water because it contains a toxic chemical linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

«I am pleased that the EPA has heeded my call to release updated drinking water health advisories for the highly - toxic chemicals PFOA and PFOS.

Officials in Vermont, New Hampshire and New York are expanding their efforts to find out how much of a potentially toxic chemical ended up in drinking water, from private wells to public water systems.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency is advising Hoosick Falls, Rensselaer County residents whose private water wells show a toxic substance in excess of 100 parts per trillion that they should not drink their water or cook with it.

State and local officials have defended their handling of the toxic pollution, including waiting more than 15 months to warn residents in Hoosick Falls to stop drinking the tainted water.

Hoosick Falls village officials secretly hired a Glens Falls public relations firm last month to help develop «an overall communications program» as criticism mounted about their decision to not warn residents to stop drinking water contaminated with a toxic chemical.

An environmental database company says toxic algae threatens public recreational and drinking water sources around New York.

Cuomo's administration has been accused of failing for 18 months to inform residents in Hoosick Falls that their water might be unsafe to drink because of contamination with the toxic chemical PFOA.

At 11 a.m., Toxics Targeting Inc. holds a news conference releasing photos of algal blooms threatening the sources of public drinking water for residents of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, Ithaca and other communities across New York, state Capitol, third floor, adjoining to the LCA Press Room, Albany.

The drinking water of some six million people across the country may have elevated levels of unregulated toxic chemicals widely used in the past in many household products — notably pans coated with Teflon — a Harvard - led study found.

We want to fund state of the art drinking water treatment systems that filter out all potential chemicals that could be toxic and dangerous.

ALBANY — Hoosick Falls residents who drank from the tainted municipal water supply have, on average, more than 30 times the national level of a toxic chemical in their blood, according to state health department data obtained by POLITICO.

Nixon stopped in Hoosick Falls in Rensselaer County on Wednesday to meet with residents whose drinking water was contaminated with toxic chemicals.

Mandating aggressive action on lead — as well as other toxic substances — in schools» drinking water is important issue that must be addressed this session, before the next school year begins.

ALBANY — The company suspected of tainting Hoosick Falls» drinking water supply with toxic chemicals should immediately disclose the full extent of the pollution it caused, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Monday.

Cuomo's administration has been accused of failing for 18 months to inform Hoosick Falls residents that their water might be contaminated with the toxic chemical perfluorooctanoic acid, and unsafe to drink.

Last month, state law went into effect requiring all schools test their drinking water for the toxic material.

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.

As you might know, Governor Cuomo is considering permitting fracking in New York, a dangerous way of drilling for gas by pumping toxic chemicals through our drinking water.

Toxic chemicals in water systems has become a significant issue in the last six months, ever since the EPA warned residents in upstate Hoosick Falls not to drink their water.

The legislative hearing to examine New York's drinking - water problems was prompted, mostly, by the state Health Department's controversial response to the 2014 discovery of a toxic manufacturing chemical in the water supplies of Hoosick Falls.

The freshwater bodies on 38 percent of Earth's land area (not including Antarctica) are overly enriched with phosphorus, leading to potentially toxic algal blooms and less available drinking water, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources Resewater, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources ReseWater Resources Research.

A new material can pull a toxic, hard - to - degrade industrial chemical from drinking water more effectively than current methods.

When they consume BMAA - tainted food or drink — be it bat stew, shellfish, or contaminated water — the molecule is not discarded; instead, it is taken up and deposited in the brain, forming what Cox calls a «toxic reservoir.»

Elevated iodide in surface water can promote the formation of highly toxic byproducts in drinking water when the iodide mixes with the chlorine used to disinfect the water at municipal treatment plants located downstream from oil and gas operations.

A highly toxic water pollutant, known as perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), last year caused a number of U.S. communities to close their drinking water supplies.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

The company has been at the forefront of research into the summer blooms of toxic algae in freshwater, and it has developed techniques for removing pesticides from drinking water.

Twenty - five years after a toxic gas cloud from a pesticide factory killed thousands of people in Bhopal, India, groundwater at the accident site — a drinking water supply for 15 communities — remains contaminated, according to a report released today by an advocacy group and a medical clinic.

This raises concern that toxic chemicals used during the drilling could seep into shallow drinking water sources.

The EPA requires that Class 1 and 2 injection wells be drilled the deepest to assure that the most toxic waste is pushed far below drinking water aquifers.

Accidents are uncommon, they say, and groundwater reserves — from which most Americans get their drinking water — remain safe and far exceed any plausible threat posed by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground.

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Stop drinking tap water because in most cities it is toxic from the sodium fluoride that the government dumps in it.

«The EPA and state regulators must set drinking water standards to protect the public, including those more susceptible to the toxic effects of chromium - 6,» the EWG report reads.

Don't drink tap water because sodium fluoride is poison that deadens your central nervous system and is toxic at a cellular level.

Prop 65 or the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 was voted into law by a landslide (63 percent).

Steer clear of unnecessary medications, antimicrobial products, and toxic chemicals, and make sure the food and water you eat and drink is from as «clean» a source as possible (i.e., organic, and preservative -, pesticide - and antibiotic - free).

Toxins in our food, pollutants in the air, chlorine in our drinking water, antibiotics in our meat, and pesticides in our vegetables... These are all factors that contribute to our toxic load.