Sentences with phrase «new lead in drinking water»

Under the Environmental Protection Agency's new lead in drinking water rules that were set to go into effect in January, hydrants as they're made now would be deemed unusable because they contain too high of an amount of lead.

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VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units...

VICTORIA — After the Christy Clark government refused to take the issue of lead in the drinking water of North Coast communities seriously, B.C. New Democrat MLA for the North Coast, Jennifer Rice, initiated water testing in three social housing units in her community.

Cuomo's office has also worked to bolster its clean water credentials, signing a bill this week that would require New York schools to test for lead in drinking water.

Clean water advocates in upstate New York have set their sights on keeping lead out of school drinking water.

The increasing need for drinking water in New York City led the city to search for sources in the Hudson Valley.

The New York crisis follows last year's water crisis in Flint, Mich., over dangerous levels of lead in the city's drinking water.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversigNew York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversignew flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversigNew York for oversight.

«The Sierra Club has been a leader among environmental organizations, from keeping New York's drinking water clean to leading the fight against hydrofracking, they have been a crucial partner in protecting New York's environment.

At 11 a.m., amid a growing flood of reports of lead in school drinking water around the state and the country, a coalition of New York public health, environment, and healthy schools advocacy groups will call on state government leaders to take action, LCA Press Room (130), Legislative Office Building, Albany.

In accordance with New York legislation signed into law on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, Union - Endicott Central School District began testing school drinking water for possible lead contamination.

Brown's new initiatives for lead in drinking water testing come one day after the Buffalo Common Council passed legislation aimed at addressing chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following two years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.

Lead by 17 - year - old senior, Anna Wysocki, who served as spokesperson for the student panel cited the governors endorsement of the ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York State because of the danger the drilling process posed to the safety of drinking water.

A staunch proponent for environmental protection and how it directly effects the health of local residents Stratton's most recent advocacy for the residents of his district has been investigating lead concentrations in drinking water due to aging infrastructure and widespread use of lead in plumbing, even in newer homes.

Overall, the federal agency received a $ 763 million increase, according to the Adirondack Council, including $ 300 million each for the Clean Water Fund and Safe Drinking Water Fund; $ 63 million for implementation of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinking wWater Fund and Safe Drinking Water Fund; $ 63 million for implementation of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinkinDrinking Water Fund; $ 63 million for implementation of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinking wWater Fund; $ 63 million for implementation of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinking wWater Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act and $ 50 million for new grant programming to address lead in drinkingdrinking waterwater.

Britain's Drinking Water Inspectorate last week revealed in its annual report that as many as one in five homes in Britain may exceed the proposed new European safety limit of 10 micrograms of lead in a litre of tapwater.

Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says

Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin - producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year's Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by microbiologist Martin Blaser of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City added antibiotics to the drinking water of mice that had just been weaned.

Childhood blood lead levels in the city have been on a steady decline since 2006, with the exception of two spikes — including between 2014 and 2015 when lead contaminated the city's drinking water — according to the study led by Michigan Medicine and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

The new study supports previously reported data showing that corrective measures, including switching back the city's water source and instructing residents to use filtered water for drinking and cooking, made significant progress in children's blood lead levels.

«The next question was whether contaminants in household wastewater, once they enter the groundwater, make their way into drinking water supplies,» says Dr. Laurel Schaider, a research scientist at Silent Spring and lead author of the new study.

Prenatal exposure to tetrachloroethylene (PCE) in drinking water may increase the risk of stillbirth and placental abruption, according to a new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher.

The study found lead in 58 percent of the samples, but only 5 percent — all from New York — exceeded drinking water standards.

Leading energy industry analysts believe that in whatever energy bill Congress passes next, there will be both a new federal requirement on frack chemical disclosure and an amendment to assure that fracking is regulated by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).