Sentences with phrase «groups about contamination»
The report comes amid heightened concern by some environmental and consumer groups about contamination of drinking water by agricultural chemicals.
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A coalition of state and national environmental groups have raised concerns about water contamination and other impacts on Western Australia's largest national park.
Michael Hickey, the village resident who tested the water and sounded the first alarm about the contamination three years ago, as well as Loreen Hackett, Emily Marpe and her 12 - year - old daughter, Gwen Young, traveled there on behalf of the Environmental Working Group and Environmental Defense Fund.
In addition to raising concerns about groundwater contamination and whether the state's approval process was above board, watchdog groups questioned whether sizeable campaign donations to Perry from the company's late founder, billionaire Harold Simmons, influenced the decision.
(Those who worry about mercury contamination in fish got some good news recently: In one study conducted in the Seychelles, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, scientists from the University of Rochester Medical Center tracked pregnant women who ate an average of 12 fish meals a week, about 10 times the quantity of fish eaten by the average American.
COAL: An environmental group is concerned about groundwater contamination at 15 sites around Indiana where coal ash is stored.
Some of the improvement in control group scores may therefore have been due to real improvements in parenting inadvertently brought about by the trial (contamination).