Sentences with phrase «lead tainted water»

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Four more officials in Flint, Michigan were criminally charged in the state attorney general's ongoing investigation in the city's lead - tainted water that currently is still unsafe to drink.

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.

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.

Earlier this week, Klein's group released a report comparing the situation at NYCHA to the lead - tainted water crisis that struck Flint, Michigan.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee holds a hearing on the lead - tainted water crisis in Flint, Mich..

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.

«A much more concrete problem is also visible: the fact that so much — yet not enough — is known about who is affected by tainted water, where the problems lie, and how extensive the problem is,» noted Rosner, who is also Ronald H. Lauterstein professor of Sociomedical Sciences and co-author of the 2013 book Lead Wars.

When Flint, Mich., started using its own river as a water supply, the city's drinking water became tainted with lead.

State attorney general says charges are «only the beginning» in the investigation into city's lead - tainted water

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.

As long as they live, these goldfish will continue to soil the fish tank, and if not changed, the water will only get tainted leading to death for all the goldfish.

«In factories on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Stephan Kohler of the Graz University of Technology in Austria and a team of researchers have cleansed water tainted with toxic metals like cadmium, zinc, lead and iron.»