Obtained a favorable jury verdict in a case brought against a fast food franchise by customer who claimed he lost his sense of taste
from tainted water at the restaurant.
From the news that E. coli can be used to recover uranium
from tainted waters and clean up nuclear waste to the first «living» building grown in Germany, a lot happened this week in green.
Researchers have found that E. coli can recover uranium
from tainted waters when working alongside inositol phosphate.
Not exact matches
But perusing newspapers
from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of
Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.
The fact sheet was published as the state revealed his week that those consuming
tainted water from Hoosick Falls» municipal
water supply had PFOA blood levels more than 30 times higher than the national average.
The EPA had the authority and information to issue an emergency order protecting residents of Flint, Mich.,
from lead -
tainted water a full seven months before it did so, an EPA internal investigation has concluded.
In its work for General Electric Co. through the years, the public relations firm owned by Mark Behan became entangled in a legal battle between GE and several river communities that filed federal lawsuits against the company when their
water supplies were
tainted by the PCBs dumped into the river
from its plants in Fort Edward and Hudson Falls.
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.
Reproductions of maps of the Dakotas
from 1886 may remind visitors of ongoing controversies with the Dakota Access Pipeline, proposed to run near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and maps
from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mark sites in Flint, Mich., with lead -
tainted water.
To keep more
water from seeping into the ground and being
tainted, more than 90 percent of the site has been paved.
Groundwater
from deep «tube wells» has been widely used for drinking
water in Bangladesh since the 1970s, but it has emerged more recently that naturally occurring arsenic
taints the
water in many of the country's 10 million wells.
Tap
water in Charleston, West Virginia, and nearby communities will remain unsafe in the coming days, an official said on Saturday as residents spent a third day unable to bathe, shower or drink
from the faucet due to a chemical spill
tainting the Elk River.
The
tainted steaks theory could not be easily dismissed because DEHP can be absorbed by food and
water from their packaging.
Cholera, which is carried by faeces -
tainted water, is endemic in Nepal: there was an outbreak in Kathmandu, the country's capital, just before the peacekeepers flew in
from there between 9 and 16 October.
Although solid wastes
from all sorts of experiments have been sealed in a landfill, certain liquids, mostly chlorinated solvents, still
taint the
water that runs under the site.
In 2014, the city switched its
water source
from Detroit to the Flint River, which led to
tainted drinking
water that contained lead and other toxins.
wouldn't there be chemical
taint from industrial manufacturing and made with city
water.
And the father drank some
water from a spring
tainted by a fallen meteor, and now he can move objects with his mind.
They may drink
from the dog bowl too, but cats are very finicky about the taste of their
water, and dog slobber could
taint it enough to prevent them
from drinking.
As I wrote a few months ago, 2.6 billion people face this problem every day, and more than 1.5 million people, mainly children, die prematurely
from exposure to
water tainted with human waste.
I had a particularly fascinating time interviewing Richard Wilson, a professor emeritus of physics at Harvard who has lately been studying risks associated with everything
from nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic -
tainted water supply.
This is the last paragraph Dr. Wilson writes in the web page you can get to
from «nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic -
tainted water supply.»
A host of environmental problems have this characteristic —
from the erosion of biological diversity to the daily death toll in developing countries
from drinking
tainted water or inhaling smoke
from unvented cooking fires.
Our wastewater systems combine stormwater, greywater, and even clean
water (such as when we inadvertently let potable
water run right down the drain without using it for some purpose) with the sewage
from our toilets, when we could actually design and implement systems that would segregate the slightly
tainted water (greywater and stormwater)
from that which comes
from toilets.
The voices of the thousands of Appalachians living with contaminated drinking
water have finally been amplified over the past several days with a long - overdue announcement about halting mountaintop removal permits
from the EPA and a widely - discussed New York Times story on Sunday about the devastating effects of coal -
tainted water.
Gold mining is an industry fraught with environmental peril, however -
tainting of
water resources, and the use of cyanide and mercury to extract gold
from crushed ore are two of the worst offenses.
The firm also gets the nod in highly contentious matters, with Ontario's attorney general having retained senior partner Brian Brock to manage insurance claims flowing
from the Walkerton, Ont.,
tainted water scandal.