Not only does this leasing portend more greenhouse gases, the prospect of more mining promises more air pollution,
more water contamination, diminished wildlife, and more barren, unreclaimed land.
Not exact matches
Indian industry can adopt a
more responsible attitude in general while discharging waste
water into
water bodies or sewers to reduce
contamination of surface and ground
water.
Used as a filler for ground beef, it is made from fatty trimmings that are
more susceptible to
contamination than other cuts of beef, and are therefore sprayed with ammonium hydroxide - ammonia mixed with
water - to remove pathogens such as salmonella and E.coli.
The report released by the Senate Health and Senate Environmental Conservation committees, comes
more than a year after state officials responded to cases of chemical
contamination of
water in rural communities like Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh — the result of the area's industrial past.
While PFOA
contamination is believed to have leeched into the ground
water from the nearby Saint Gobain Plastics factory, this story is less about the polluter and
more about whether the concerns from residents of a small town near the Vermont border were taken seriously in a timely enough fashion.
More than two dozen residents are seeking permission to sue the City of Newburgh over PFOS drinking
water contamination.
Once
more information is compiled, he said, the D.E.C. may investigate the source of the
contamination, and, if necessary, plans could be made to have affected residents hooked up to public
water.
The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by
more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a
water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.
The Republican plan includes investments aimed at clean
water infrastructure,
more funding for environmental protection and strengthening measures designed to monitor chemical
contaminations.
Hoosick Falls residents have been living with a PFOA
contamination in their drinking
water for the last 500 days and are urging the state to do
more in the village to find a permanent
water source.
The Poughkeepsie Journal wants the state to do
more to preserve and protect
water quality, noting the
contamination issues in Flint, Michigan are far fro isolated.
After enduring heavy criticism last week for not being
more proactive in reaching out to the public about the possibility of
water contamination, the authority sent out robocalls Monday to 96,000 households for which it had phone numbers.
However, there is still a lot
more to do, such as cleaning up the
contamination of our soil and
water way and finding another home for the bomb detonation unit,» said Assemblyman Benedetto.
Hoosick Falls, meanwhile, has dealt with the even
more serious problem of industrial
contamination of its
water supply.
Other concerns included
contamination from future hydrofracking, the impact of
water quality on house prices and residency, and safer and
more cost - effective alternatives such as drainage repairs.
It's
more important to ensure that any future
contamination is addressed, he said, and «the only way to do that is to have a district - wide
water supply.
Since discovery of the
contamination, Saint - Gobain has been paying for bottled
water for the town — stacked high in the aisles of a local supermarket — as well as a new carbon - filtration system for the village, at an estimated cost of
more than $ 3 million.
Last year — after warning residents not to drink or cook with the
water and to ventilate their homes when they showered — the EPA drilled the monitoring wells to get a
more precise picture of the extent of the
contamination.
Since 2008, ProPublica has reported about hundreds of cases of
water contamination in
more than six states where drilling and fracking are taking place as well as the difficulties of handling the vast quantities of waste the drilling processes produce.
The sensor is simple to use and it can detect tiny amounts of
contamination in
water, making it
more sensitive than existing detection methods.
One Dartmouth scientist, epidemiologist Margaret Karagas, had already found that babies whose mothers relied on
water from wells drilled in New Hampshire's arsenic - rich bedrock — with
contamination measured at levels as high as 1 ppm (1,000 ppb)-- were disproportionately likely to have low birth weight and might also be
more vulnerable to childhood infections.
These types of
contamination events, Yakovlev explains, might be mitigated or even avoided if samples from
water systems are
more thoroughly analyzed so that they can provide a better picture of what is in the
water.
A study examining
more than 50 tap
water samples found
water had very few bacteria in buildings without cisterns but there was noticeable
contamination in buildings where storage tanks were present or plumbing had been altered or otherwise disrupted.
Boellstorff said the program does
more than teach private well owners how to be good stewards of the environment by using best management practices to reduce their impact on the state's
water supply and to prevent
contamination.
They eat, drink, and breathe
more per pound of body weight than adults, making them
more susceptible to air and
water contamination.
Type B is a milder form of the disease that is associated
more with
water contamination and aquatic mammals.
Flood
waters can topple facilities and spread oil, gas, and cancer - causing fracking chemicals across vast landscapes making
contamination and clean - up efforts exponentially worse and
more complicated.»
«EPA has refused to acknowledge this problem for
more than a decade, and the mercury
contamination in our food and
waters has grown worse every year as a result.
The groups sent a letter to the agency that contained new data from testing commissioned by the Empire State Consumer Project, which revealed levels of arsenic
contamination in one juice sample that was
more than five times higher than what the Environmental Protection Agency would allow in drinking
water.
These types of urban agriculture have a
more pronounced economic impact and higher profitability, but their externalities for the city and urban populations, especially those of the intensive larger scale enterprises, tend to be higher especially through risk of
water and soil
contamination due to intensive use of agro chemicals, health risks from use of contaminated
water for irrigation and risks of animal - human disease transfers (zoonosis).
«This rollback will mean
more asthma and other breathing disorders associated with air pollution,
more contamination of
water supplies by residue from mining fossil fuels and
more money wasted on infrastructure for a dying energy industry,» Francis said.
Concepts such as global warming,
water contamination and human rights are weighty matters that are
more accessible to people than ever before, as is the need for resources to make solutions effective.
In the US, septic tanks are reported as a source of ground
water contamination more than any other source.
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