Sentences with phrase «for contaminating water supplies»

In May, Pennsylvania officials fined Chesapeake Energy $ 1 million for contaminating the water supplies of 16 families in Bradford County.

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

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«The Washington, D.C. City Council yesterday passed a resolution opposing hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling for natural gas in the George Washington National Forest due to concerns that such development might contaminate drinking water supplies.

On ships, there was little storage room, and water / drink is heavy, so Rum, meads, brews would keep better than water, and last for months, where water supplies would contaminate during the same time.

Are guidelines drafted for countries where poverty is endemic, water supplies are contaminated, and starvation always a possibility, applicable to the US?

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

In addition to sexual harassment issues, Gillibrand touted her work securing health care for first responders to the Sept. 11 attacks, prohibiting insider trading by members of Congress, and winning a Superfund designation for Hoosick Falls, a Rensselaer County village whose water supply was contaminated by a factory that produced nonstick coatings.

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.

Advocates for the environment and victims of contaminated water supplies disagree.

Newsday reports the contaminated well is a water supply source for the Suffolk County Water Authowater supply source for the Suffolk County Water AuthoWater Authority.

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.

Or, for that matter, by ensuring that we're protecting our water through the Department of Environmental and Planning and its environmental planning and its environmental compliance division to ensure that people are not contaminating our water supplies by putting what would be considered harmful chemicals into the water.

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.

In a long - awaited move designed to protect people from cancer, California on Thursday proposed a new health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water that is thousands of times lower than the amount contaminating some water supplies.

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

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.

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.

A new study sheds light on a unique enzyme that could provide an eco-friendly treatment for chlorite - contaminated water supplies and improve water quality worldwide.

For survival purposes, it all boils down to getting rid of the nasty organisms that have contaminated the ground water and even the public supply of drinking water.

The town of Black Creek, named for the oil that contaminates the water supply, has made Mikkelsen and his brother welcome, but the men who supposedly run it are under the thumb of a ruthless villain named Delarue (Morgan).

You may also want to consider alternative methods of getting water for your animals, as water supplies can become contaminated.

However, human - to - human transmission is also important and contaminated municipal water supplies are responsible for many outbreaks.

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).

A group of coalfield citizens traveled to Washington, D.C., during the March on Blair Mountain to renew their call for the end of mountaintop removal mining, a devastating coal mining practice that is destroying their communities, contaminating their drinking water supplies, and threatening the health and lives of many Appalachians.

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.

Scientists and municipal planners say the rising seas will likely turn underground aquifers into salty water, contaminating the drinking supply for millions of Floridians.

Campaigners in Scotland are calling for a full, independent investigation into allegations that wind farms are contaminating water supplies across large areas of Scotland.

Donna Rachel Edmunds — Breitbart.com — July 18, 2015 Campaigners in Scotland are calling for a full, independent investigation into allegations that wind farms are contaminating water supplies across large areas of Scotland.

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.

Since that time he has represented hundreds of public entities seeking clean - up costs for water supplies contaminated by MTBE, Atrazine and TCP.

Even without epic storms, Horton said climate - related sea level increases can cause massive problems for coastal areas because it increases frequent flooding, which causes erosion, contaminates drinking water supplies and aquifers, damages farmland and decreases habitat for fisheries, wildlife and plants.

For sake of argument, if we accept that the well that was supplying the potable water to this mystery home was as aesthetically contaminated as the subject writer has claimed or implied, the sump - pump pit would be even worse because they're not protected in any way similar to that of a well that supplies potable water to a home.