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But the Standing Rock Sioux, whose tribal lands are a half - mile south of the proposed route, have said the pipeline could pollute the tribe's drinking water and desecrate sacred burial and prayer sites.

We can not blow up the world and continue to live on it; we can not destroy the ozone layer without risking skin cancer; we can not pollute all waters and be able to drink; we can not denude the surface of trees and expect the soil not to erode.

Yet due to age and lack of maintenance, the pipes, pumping 20 million gallons of oil and natural gas daily, are at risk of bursting — and therefore polluting the drinking water of the neighboring 30 million Americans and Canadians.

While the effects of these pathogens are still being studied, experts agree that pathogens could make their way into a water source, potentially polluting 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.

«Worse than that, many of these lakes are sources of drinking water and once you have a polluted or dangerous source of drinking water, you have a real problem,» says Cuomo.

HOOSICK FALLS — In the face of vehement community opposition, the Hoosick Falls Village Board agreed Thursday night to table a vote on a proposed $ 850,000 settlement with the companies blamed for polluting the community's drinking water.

When leaders and citizens of a village are grappling with how to best deal with a crisis over polluted drinking water, it's a strange time for the state Senate to withhold documents that might inform their discussion.

5 No, you're not less of a man if you let a garage do the work: One quart of motor oil, improperly disposed of, can pollute 250,000 gallons of drinking water.

The sludge, which engulfed hundreds of acres, damaged lakeside homes and polluted drinking water in Tennessee contained high levels of arsenic and elevated levels of radioactive radium, reported Duke University scientists.

It has also been identified in tests of preschoolers» drinking water (SN: 11/3/01, p. 285: Available to subscribers at How polluted is a preschooler's world?).

In a 2000 case that wasn't caused by injection but brought important lessons about how fluids could move underground, hydrogeologists concluded that bacteria - polluted water migrated horizontally underground for several thousand feet in just 26 hours, contaminating a drinking water well in Walkerton, Ontario, and sickening thousands of residents.

Yes, because the air that we breathe is polluted, the water that we drink is full of chlorine, the clothing we wear is made of artificial fabrics and chemicals, the lotions and shampoos that we use all contain chemicals.

It's common knowledge that most water sources are now polluted, but there is tremendous confusion about what kind of drinking water is the most health promoting, and what kind of home water treatment produces the best drinking water.

As for the output, 1.6 million tons of livestock manure pollutes our drinking water.

Oscar winner Julia Roberts as a sassy, low - level law - office worker who becomes obsessed with a case involving a California utility company that's accused of polluting the drinking water in a small town.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

If improperly disposed of, the cell phone can pollute up to 132,000 liters of drinking water.

Or «Why are we polluting our water if we only have a certain amount of water to drink?»

Smoky Thanksgiving from Peabody Energy, the world's biggest private coal company, providing Americans with an ample dose of mercury, smog, acid rain, polluted drinking water, ocean acidification, fouled landscapes and global warming every day.

Mountaintop removal is a radical form of coal mining where entire mountains are literally blown up — devastating communities throughout Appalachia, polluting drinking water and destroying rivers.

Only HIV / AIDS, malnutrition, and lack of clean drinking water and sanitation are greater health threats than the problems of polluted indoor air.

Factory farms pollute the environment and our drinking water, wreck rural communities, and harm the welfare of animals — while increasing corporate control over our food.

At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.

When preparing such a zoning and related regulations, factors like population density, the ecological sensitivity of the area concerned, closeness to polluting industry, closeness to sources of drinking water, etc. should be taken into account as well as the potential risks related to certain types of urban agriculture.

The process of refining of these elements leaves death and destruction in its wake, polluting farmland, killing livestock, seeping into waterways and poisoning drinking water.

In contrast, fossil fuels can have a significant impact on water resources: both coal mining and natural gas drilling can pollute sources of drinking water, and all thermal power plants, including those powered by coal, gas, and oil, withdraw and consume water for cooling.

As European greens and government policymakers are frolicking and polluting at Cancun's paradise resorts for two weeks, their countries» soot emissions are destroying the Himalayan glaciers and drinking water of billions of people.

Chemical - laced wastewater can spill and pollute drinking water as well as cause earthquakes when massive amounts of it are disposed.

Fracking is known to use millions of gallons of toxic and radioactive wastewater, which has polluted drinking water.

In rural parts of Liberia, communities complain that their food is now scarcer than it was before the palm oil companies moved in, and that fertilizers have polluted their fishing ponds and drinking water.»

In fact, he says, the oil sands, combined with Alberta's growing mania for extracting natural gas from coal seams by injecting toxic chemicals into the ground — thereby poisoning some of the dwindling supply of drinking water — threaten to create a parched, deforested, polluted wasteland.

Ms. Sanchez has also represented hundreds of municipalities and public water providers, as well as private well owners seeking solutions for polluted drinking water supplies in cases arising from MTBE, TCP, and PCE contamination.

Successfully represented a group of property and casualty insurers in a coverage and bad faith lawsuit in Houston, Texas, in which the insureds sought more than $ 100 million for alleged business interruption losses, costs associated with defense of toxic tort suits, Superfund project costs, and bad faith damages, all arising from the insureds» operation of a California landfill deemed to have polluted a key source of drinking water for the Los Angeles area.