Sentences with phrase «environmental contamination guidelines»
Firms such as Eco Reco are taking advantage of a booming but hazardous industry, where e-waste is usually dismantled by workers with little protection in recycling plants that have even fewer safety and environmental contamination guidelines.
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«Earlier this year, Governor Cuomo joined Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont and Governor Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire in calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to acknowledge that PFOA contamination is not a state or regional problem, but rather a national problem that requires consistent federal guidelines.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration has long blamed federal guidelines for hampering its response to an upstate village's water - contamination crisis and accused the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of sowing confusion.
It was concluded that fireworks nearby were the source of the contamination, so the state's Department of Environmental Protection set guidelines about protecting drinking water and the disposal of duds (a big source of the chemicals).