Sentences with phrase «hexavalent chromium»

However, there are limited human studies on the health effects of hexavalent chromium when ingested,» Dr. Rhea Mehta, a molecular toxicologist, explained to mindbodygreen.

The small town of Hinkley in San Bernardino County has the highest levels of chromium 6, also known as hexavalent chromium, ever reported in U.S. water.

Sukinda, India — Home to one of the world's largest chromite mines — used to make steel stainless, among other things — and 2.6 million people, the waters of this valley contain carcinogenic hexavalent chromium compounds courtesy of 30 million tons of waste rock lining the Brahmani River.

A report released by EarthJustice and the Sierra Club in early February 2011 stated that there are many health threats associated with a toxic cancer - causing chemical found in coal waste called hexavalent chromium.

Working with local scientists, environmental science college students, and other stakeholders, the team collected pollution data and identified epidemiological studies surrounding hexavalent chromium and the environmental health impacts of the tanneries, to develop options to present to the local community to decrease the environmental and health harms while maintaining local incomes.

In Bangladesh, tannery industries were producing hexavalent chromium that polluted the water supplies in the region of Hazaribagh due to improper disposal.

We have to live with hexavalent chromium and manage it at the source.»

Management tactics range from using bone charcoal to soak up the carcinogen and then dispose of it as toxic waste to chemically transforming hexavalent chromium to a more benign form.

But that ranges from nearly 24 years lost because of lead in industrial wastewater to just under three years lost from hexavalent chromium, the carcinogenic form of the element, from tanneries.

As fate would have it, soon after our system was installed, I found an article in The Washington Post about hexavalent chromium, or chromium 6, showing up in water samples from 35 U.S. cities.

While I wasn't happy to read the article, I was very happy to know that my water filtration system removes hexavalent chromium, along with many other chemicals.

«The IARC has classified hexavalent chromium as a human carcinogen through the inhalation route of exposure.

In vitro metal toxicity in Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) fibroblasts with an emphasis on Hexavalent Chromium, 35th Annual Conference of The International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, April 4 - 9, Galveston, Texas.

Legal action tied to U.S. Steel's spill of nearly 300 pounds of carcinogenic hexavalent chromium near popular surf spot in Lake Michigan

The application of thin layers of chromium — to improve appearance or durability — releases toxic compounds including hexavalent chromium, an unsafe carcinogen at any level of exposure.

Study finds dangerous level of hexavalent chromium at Progress Energy's Cape Fear and Asheville coal waste sites

Julia Roberts does an Academy Award - winning turn as the real - life paralegal and sassy single mom whose dogged investigation into a suspicious real estate case turns up a pattern of illegal dumping of highly toxic hexavalent chromium and one of the heftiest class action suits in U.S. history.

«California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) Proposes New, More Stringent, Drinking Water Standard for Hexavalent Chromium,» Gibson Dunn and Crutcher Blog (August 2009)

A report released by EarthJustice and the Sierra Club in early February 2011 stated that there are many health threats associated with a toxic cancer - causing chemical found in coal ash waste called hexavalent chromium.

«Hexavalent chromium is very toxic and very mobile,» notes David Hanrahan, Blacksmith's London - based director of global programs.

Hexavalent chromium is a «heavy metal used in producing pigments, leather tanning, electroplating, metal processing, wood preservation,» among other things.

Hexavalent chromium is toxic and known to cause contact dermatitis.

There are approximately 85,000 chemicals regulated under the United States Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)[1] but the Environmental Protection Agency has only banned or restricted use of a handful of chemicals, including chlorofluorocarbons, asbestos, radon, lead, and hexavalent chromium.

Hexavalent chromium was a commonly used industrial chemical until the early 1990s.

The use of environmental harmful substances such as lead, mercury, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium has also been drastically curtailed.

Hexavalent chromium and cadmium have also been eliminated from the bill of materials.

Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)-RRB- was reported at the site at 100 ppb (parts per billion)- 5,000 times the proposed California drinking water goals and above the federal drinking water standard.

Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)-RRB- was reported at the site above 128 ppb (parts per billion)- 6,400 times the proposed California drinking water goals and 1.28 times the federal drinking water standard.

The action resulted in environmental groups visiting more than hundred House of Representative offices to ask for their support for EPA's efforts to safeguard our communities from toxic mercury, arsenic, soot, hexavalent chromium, and carbon dioxide from the nation's largest pollution sources, including coal plants, oil refineries, and factories.

Defended a «contaminated community» toxic tort case in Federal District court involving allegations of exposure to hexavalent chromium, PCE and TCE in air and groundwater;

Managed expert witness testimony for Fortune 50 company in a «contaminated community» toxic tort case in federal district court involving allegations of exposure to hexavalent chromium, PCE and TCE in air and groundwater.