Sentences with phrase «local environmental contamination»

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By: Tasneem Bulbulia 23rd March 2018 Amid a range of land contamination issues in South Africa, mining houses are increasingly adapting their operations to be more holistic to curb environmental risks and create meaningful value for local stakeholders while achieving their objectives.

Local officials, environmental advocates and residents demanded that the EPA take more action to clean up the Hudson River from contamination by General Electric during a meeting in Saratoga Springs last night.

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.

Vermont environmental officials will hold meetings Tuesday to provide the latest information to Bennington - area residents about the PFOA contamination of local water supplies and the ongoing response.

The Departments of Environmental Conservation and Health recently announced that Honeywell, one of the companies that's been deemed responsible for the contamination of local water supplies with the chemical PFOA, would conduct a soil vapor intrusion investigation near the company's former facility on John Street.

Local regulatory requirements may not help: for instance, although the researchers discovered methane contamination at homes within 1,000 meters of active natural gas wells, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection only holds drilling companies responsible for drinking water within 305 meters.

Moreover, the vine has been found to be an environmental carcinogen through the contamination of food supplies of farming villages in the Balkans, where Aristolochia grows wildly in the local wheat fields.

Developed exclusively for residential real estate transactions, the report delivers information about a property and the neighborhood around it from a database of more than 23 million records including local, state and federal records of known environmental contamination in the United States over the last 100 years.

Due to the terminal's unprecedented risks to the health, safety, local economies and natural resources of Northwest communities, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Whatcom County planned to consider the project's broad impacts in the environmental impact statement, including coal dust around the terminal, rail traffic and coal dust along rail lines and waterways in Montana, Idaho and Washington; and the effects of burning coal overseas on the Northwest, particularly regarding climate pollution and mercury contamination.

On one level the Cuomo plan seems like a decent compromise (presuming you assume a complete ban is off the table), appealing both to environmental sense (the areas were reportedly selected to minimize risk of groundwater contamination), local control (the towns can opt out part), as well as economic justice (the areas where fracking would be allowed are some of the poorest rural areas of the state).