Sentences with phrase «held on the contamination»

At a news conference in Albany in June, residents of Hoosick Falls demanded that hearings be held on the contamination.

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Flint, Michigan Water Contamination The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee held its second hearing on the contaminated drinking water in Flint, Michigan.

Soil contamination puts South Works project, which would turn old U.S. Steel site into 20,000 - home development, on hold»

On Tuesday, August 30 at 10:30 a.m., the state Senate will hold a long - awaited hearing on water contamination in Hoosick FallOn Tuesday, August 30 at 10:30 a.m., the state Senate will hold a long - awaited hearing on water contamination in Hoosick Fallon water contamination in Hoosick Falls.

The public meeting on PFOS contamination was held at the Baptist Temple in Newburgh.

In an about face on Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan announced his chamber will hold public hearings in the village of Hoosick Falls next month to discuss water contamination concerns.

His frustration boiled over last week, when Flanagan reiterated to reporters he would not hold hearings on water issues in the aftermath of a PFOA contamination in the village in order to assess the response by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration (Conservative critics of the Senate GOP have been deeply critical of the conference's relationship with Cuomo, especially in the wake of the passage of the SAFE Act).

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a Republican vying for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring GOP lawmaker Hugh Farley, called on the conference he wants to join to hold hearings on the PFOA water contamination issue in Hoosick Falls as well as water issues statewide.

On Tuesday, a State Senate committee held a daylong hearing here, after months in which residents have repeatedly expressed frustration with local, state and federal reaction to the contamination.

What do you know: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie finally agreed to hold hearings on water quality, including one to examine contamination in upstate Hoosick Falls.

Heastie then announced plans to hold hearings on water quality issues later next month as the scrutiny of the Cuomo administration's handling of Hoosick Falls water contamination intensifies with a Republican - backed congressional review as well.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin on Tuesday questioned why the Democratic - led Assembly is yet to hold hearings on water quality issues around the state, first proposed earlier this year after the village of Hoosick Falls's municipal water supply was impacted by a chemical contamination.

Sen. Kathy Marchione said Tuesday in radio interview she would consider holding hearings on the drinking contamination in Hoosick Falls.

Hoosick Falls residents hold signs during a news conference at the state Capitol in Albany, N.Y., in June calling for hearings on the state's handling of PFOA contamination in drinking water in their town.

The Society of Environmental Journalists contest judges said Telvock's «dogged reporting on water contamination and lead poisoning holds local officials accountable on behalf of Buffalo residents.

The New York Assembly on Wednesday announced plans to hold a hearing on water quality in the state as officials scramble to address contamination in the upstate Village of Hoosick Falls.

Most recently, Enck stood alongside the Hoosick Falls Village board on Monday (Feb. 27) during their decision to table the $ 1.04 million settlement from companies Honeywell International and Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics, held responsible for the PFOA contamination.

Also Friday, the state Senate announced it would hold hearings on the contamination crisis in Rensselaer County, including a session in Hoosick Falls.

Hackett and a group of locals from the village, town and surrounding area took those very images with them to the capitol along with Assemblymen Steve McLaughlin to push the legislature to hold public hearings on the government's handling of the PFOA contamination of Hoosick Falls water.

Conducted by a team of Indian researchers led by Swati Pattnaik and M. Vikram Reddy of the Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, at Pondicherry University, the research holds particular promise for dealing with the growing problem of urban organic waste which is often dumped on the outskirts of major settlements, polluting soils and causing issues for groundwater contamination.

The Massachusetts Appellate Court held that a buyer was entitled to rescission of a purchase contract where the defendant / seller disclosed certain soil contamination on the property but did not disclose groundwater contamination.