Sentences with phrase «lead contamination did»
A $ 150,000 study completed for the Chicago Park District in January found that lead contamination did not pose a danger at the site.
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Susan Hedman, former Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional director, told committee members the lead contamination should have never happened, and that the EPA had nothing to do with the corrosive water.
During Senate Estimates, the Department of Agriculture said it did not test for contamination that could lead to food poisoning.
Michigan in general doesn't have the best record with lead contamination monitoring.
Billed as a hearing on statewide water quality and contamination, the daylong hearing did briefly touch on issues of lead in the water of New York City's schools and a similar tainted - water problem in Newburgh, in the Hudson Valley.
At Tuesday's state Senate hearing on the water contamination in Hoosick Falls, the federal EPA came in for criticism from some state officials who blamed the agency for failing to lead, and from some lawmakers who said they were disappointed the EPA did not send a representative to the hearing.
«I don't think they're going to fall for glitzy ad campaigns and for rosy promises,» says Nadeau, who says in other states fracking has led to water contamination and other «serious community impacts».
«It was nowhere near as complex of a release as Chernobyl, which was everything from the core of the reactor,» says Peter Caracappa, a radiation safety officer and clinical assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «This was a slow release,» he adds, and it was limited to a few radioactive materials, including iodine 131, which has a half - life of just eight days and therefore does not lead to long - term contamination.
Now researchers from the Center for Public Health and the Institute of Medical Genetics at MedUni Vienna have shown that this practice can also be detrimental to health: pregnant women who consume particular types of soil display higher levels of lead contamination — as do their babies.
Many Boston schools do not have working water fountains, due to lead contamination, so removing drink machines is problematic.
This last hearing is expected to reflect the sentiment at previous public hearings — people don't want to live at risk of contamination from heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead.
How often do well casing failures lead to groundwater contamination, and how severe is the contamination?
Although it is not the leading cause of wrongful conviction, false confessions do happen as a result of confession contamination.
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