Sentences with phrase «for water pollution»

As a resident of Kansas, I'll take whatever argument works to prevent the expansion of the Holcomb plant (although for me the water pollution was enough).

Reduction in monthly stormwater utility fee: the city offers two types of credits for stormwater: stormwater quality (reducing the potential for water pollution) and stormwater quantity (reducing impervious surface).

In a letter sent to EPA officials last week, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlife.

The EPA is considering adopting new standards for water pollution coming from coal - fired power plants.

Animal agriculture is a major cause of global warming and is responsible for water pollution, deforestation, soil erosion, and all sorts of unhappy environmental consequences.

Holding factory farms accountable for water pollution, encouraging sustainable farming science, making cockfighting illegal and closing down puppy mills have all been a part of achieving balance.

Program Purpose: The Mine Water Control Dialogue addresses shared concerns in Russia and the USA for water pollution from the uncontrolled drainage of abandoned mines that is damaging watersheds and causing health risks.

That's a good thing, not only for water pollution but also for the drinking water plants that must pull H20 from the same lake and spend millions in money and energy cleaning it up.

That decision followed another vote in which the board indefinitely tabled a $ 1.04 million draft settlement with the two companies blamed for the water pollution, Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics and Honeywell International.

Not exact matches

Derischebourg pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor pollution citation for the stream of water that contained human tissue.

The biggest hurdle for the pro-industry side: The rapid expansion of fracking over the last five years has resulted in confirmed cases of drinking water contamination, a house explosion, and air pollution.

Danielle was recognized with the WaterKeeper's Environmental Achievement Award in 2000 for her outstanding achievements protecting California waters from pollution and compelling polluters to assume the costs of environmental degradation.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

Environment and Clean Energy: China's well - documented problems with air, water and other forms of environmental pollution represent a major challenge for policymakers and society.

Our service of wealth hastens the pollution of the Earth, the exhaustion of resources, the elimination of habitat for other species, the degradation of water, soil, and air.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reported that in the ten years since it implemented water pollution guidelines for Lake Michigan, the quality of lake water has actually improved.

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

In the face of formidable threats — deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution from toxic agrochemicals — the government and private sector have turned to the Rainforest Alliance to help safeguard the future of Ceylon tea, which accounts for 19 percent of the global tea supply.

«Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement lead for the Less Is More campaign.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

On March 23, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary in Natick will host a CRWA - led training on Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permits and effective strategies for reducing storm water runoff pollution.

For example, Goodman says recycling advocates often fail to consider the air and water pollution from recycling operations and the energy used to haul materials long distances to recycling plants.

The Green Guide used 12 criteria for rating green hospitals: 1) siting, 2) water efficiency, 3) energy and air pollutions, 4) materials and resources, 5) indoor environmental quality, 6) healthy hospital food, 7) green education, 8) procurement, 9) contaminants, 10) green cleaning, 11) waste reduction, and 12) healing gardens.

I know you're against clean air and water and would prefer to have industry control all that stuff, oh wait you can go to Delhi India for all the best in air pollution.

Water and air pollution, for instance, stand as examples of the price paid by China «s meteoric rise.

It also comes after the Federal Environmental Protection Agency stepped in last month and told residents they could not drink or cook with the water, and may declare it a federal Superfund site, which would require the company responsible for the pollution to fund its cleanup.

Unless your definition of «fracking» only includes the instant when holes are blown in the pipe, every state has had water and ground pollution from spills, traffic accidents, poor casing jobs, attempts to process frack waste through biological waste treatment plants not designed for that, etc..

Part of the money would be spent on projects beyond gray infrastructure — like replacing water and sewer lines and expanding wastewater plants — and instead pay for ways to prevent water pollution in the first place, proponents said.

If approved in the Legislature, the resolution would fund the unit — responsible for drilling monitoring wells to evaluate groundwater pollution across the county at sites like the former Grumman facility in Calverton — using money from the water quality fund, a fund established by a voter - approved, quarter - penny sales tax.

Two companies blamed for contributing to the pollution of the Hoosick Falls» water supplies will pay the village $ 850,000 under the terms of a proposed settlement agreement released late Friday.

Cuomo said the state will seek to have Saint - Gobain, the France - based company that owns the plastics factory connected to the pollution in Hoosick Falls, pay for the filters and water bills.

The proliferation of the pollution in a variety of sites confirms that pollution in the village goes far beyond the Saint - Gobain facility that state officials have determined is responsible for the PFOA in the municipal water supply and could make finding a new water source more challenging.

The five - page fact sheet asks and responds to 17 of the most common questions about health risks and concludes with a section recommending links for additional information, which comes in response to what is now a well - documented issue involving the pollution of local drinking water sources over a period of years by a factory manufacturing non-stick products.

Recently, I announced the single most important initiative of my administration and what should be the single most important goal for all Long Islanders: curbing decades of nitrogen pollution we have been inflicting on our ground and surface waters here in Suffolk County.

The county estimates those systems account for about 70 percent of the nitrogen pollution in the county's surface water.

Also passing the Senate last night, after considerable back and forth during which its sponsor, Capital Region Republican Sen. Kathy Marchione, twisted herself into a political pretzel, was legislation changing the statute of limitations for cases of personal injury caused by pollution — a measure intended to help Hoosick Falls residents who are struggling to deal with PFOA contamination of their drinking water.

Cuomo called for more facts and less emotion as his administration continues to investigate a water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls.

Erie County, New York - Legislator Patrick Burke who garnered national recognition for his ban on microbead plastics, has submitted a resolution expressing his opposition to the Trump Administration's proposed elimination of the Clean Water Rule, as well as the stark reductions in Environmental Protection Agency funding that would cut funds for the Great Lakes pollution cleanup by 97 %.

In November, Paul Francis, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's deputy secretary for health and human services, requested a call with EPA officials who had raised concerns that the water pollution was at a dangerous level, the newly obtained records show.

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

The state has reached an agreement for the companies to conduct an investigation into the extent of the pollution and to study alternative water sources.

The Erie County Water Quality Committee's (ECWQC) mission is to protect and improve the quality of both surface and groundwater for their intended uses, primarily through the reduction of nonpoint source pollution and by focusing on Erie County water - related isWater Quality Committee's (ECWQC) mission is to protect and improve the quality of both surface and groundwater for their intended uses, primarily through the reduction of nonpoint source pollution and by focusing on Erie County water - related iswater - related issues.

Proposed by state Assemblyman Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst) and state Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson), the Long Island Water Quality Control Act would have established a timeline for curbing nitrogen pollution flowing to ground and surface waters from hundreds of thousands of septic systems on Long Island.

Other investigations spurred government efforts to clean up Scajaquada Creek and reverse a decision to open Gallagher Beach for swimming because of serious water pollution.

It would make it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls, which Marchione represents, to file a lawsuit against the polluters responsible for the village water pollution.

It was unclear if the Senate would take up a bill that passed the Assembly making it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls and other communities to sue for damages related to water pollution, or if the Assembly would pass a bill mandating testing for lead in school districts.

And state officials have been criticized for their initial response to worries about water pollution in Hoosick Falls, located about an hour east of Albany.

The money — half of Cuomo's original $ 511 million proposal — comes from a fund typically used to pay for expensive sewer repair projects and other initiatives that protect clean water and mitigate pollution.