Sentences with phrase «of chemical spill»

Unlike the Zone in the Tarkovsky film, the Shimmer has been kept completely secret from the public (its location in the swampy marshlands of northern Florida has aided in its remaining hidden, although a small town had to be evacuated under the auspices of a chemical spill).

President Barack Obama issued an emergency declaration for the state of West Virginia on Friday, ordering federal aid in the aftermath of a chemical spill that has left up to 300,000 people without tap water, closed schools and businesses.

West Virginia's top law enforcement officer on Wednesday vowed a full investigation of a chemical spill that contaminated tap water for hundreds of thousands of people.

The Times Union recently reported that DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos has been invested in the strike movement, warning Boss in a recent letter that he will soon cite the company's violations of chemical spill and hazardous waste handling

Netflix will release a 26 - episode children's animated series based on the product about a teen exposed to some sort of chemical spill and receives the «power» of being able to stretch - out really far.

There are at least five national databases of chemical spills, including one for worker accidents and one from the Department of Transportation, and they all have limitations.

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thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

The 100s of MILLIONS of TONS of chemical fertilizers it takes to sqeeze more out of the already critically depleted US corn - wheat belt runs off down the Miss Riv into the Gulf, hence an ever - growing DEAD ZONE the size of NJ - a worse crisis than BP spill.

Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

The spilling of several thousand gallons of chemicals at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania shows a ban on hydraulic fracturing is necessary, Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, said this afternoon.

«These staff cuts must make DEC Commissioner Pete Grannis feel like he's got to clean up New York's toxic chemical spills armed with a toothbrush and a garden hose,» said Alison Jenkins, Fiscal Policy Program Director for Environmental Advocates of New York.

The layer of sand Honeywell has applied to the Onondaga Lake bottom to keep toxic mercury and other chemicals in place has failed at least three times since 2012, spilling wastes onto areas of the lake that had been relatively clean.

Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:06 AM - WBEN Newsroom North Collins, NY (WBEN)- A chemical spill at a manufacturing plant in North Collins has forced the evacuation of the plant, and the lockdown of a nearby school.

New York's Department of Environmental Conservation has been working with IBM to clean up a chemical spill in the Southern Tier town of Endicott for years now.

The debate about using dispersants is becoming increasingly politicized and acrimonious, and the National Academy of Sciences has recently assembled a committee of scientists, government officials, and industry to evaluate the use of chemical dispersants in oil spill response.

Numerous factors complicated cleanup, including the size of the spill, the remote location and a lack of readily available equipment and effective chemical dispersants to dissolve the thick oil.

«There is a chemical toxicity to the dispersant compound that in many ways is worse than oil,» said Richard Charter, a foremost expert on marine biology and oil spills who is a senior policy advisor for Marine Programs for Defenders of Wildlife and is chairman of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council.

Spills from oil and gas operations can contaminate local water and soil with high levels of toxic chemicals, salts and radioactivity, but in many cases there is insufficient information to determine how long ago the spill occurred and identify its source.

Despite being specialized for epidemics, Marathe says, the tool's underlying geographic models and synthetic populations are general, and they can be applied to other kinds of disasters, such as chemical spills, hurricanes, and cascading failures in power networks.

A group of risk experts is proposing a new framework and research agenda that they believe will support the most effective public warnings when a hurricane, wildfire, toxic chemical spill or any other environmental hazard threatens safety.

They could also be used as environmental sensors, monitoring an oil spill or chemical contamination site, for instance, and then dissolving once the disaster is cleaned up, saving recovery teams the ordeal of collection.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

In 2005, water supplies to the northeastern city of Harbin had to be cut off after an explosion at a chemical plant on the Songhua River spilled benzene into the water, pushing levels to more than 100 times safe limits.

In 2005, water supplies to the northeastern city of Harbin were cut off after an explosion at a chemical plant spilled benzene into the Songhua River, pushing levels to more than 100 times safe limits.

An oil spill isn't just a chemical problem; the students learn that it is also environmental, biological and social, and that each aspect of the problem needs to be considered when coming up with workable solutions.

One of the main concerns in cleaning up oil spills (and other industrial waste) is the addition of new chemicals into the environment.

This comes into play with the oil spill example as students learn about the chemical properties of water, oil and detergents, and how these substances interact with the environment.

A newly designed metallic soap reacts to a magnetic field, a first in soap research that could lead to better control of cleanup chemicals in situations like aquatic oil spills.

Before 10,000 gallons of an obscure coal - processing chemical spilled into the Elk River near Charleston, W.Va., in January and contaminated water supplies for more than 300,000 residents, few people knew crude MCHM existed.

Since the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have studied how communities of bacteria that grew exponentially after the disaster helped to eat away at the vast range of chemicals there, but little was known about the genetic underpinnings of the process.

West Virginia officials said Thursday they have lifted a ban on drinking tap water for two - thirds of the customers affected by a chemical spill, but warned pregnant women to avoid it until the chemical is completely flushed from the pipes.

West Virginia officials on Tuesday lifted a ban on drinking tap water from 35,000 customers who had been affected by a chemical spill that left the state's water supply nearly unusable for hundreds of thousands since last week.

There is only one official source of data on pollution caused by offshore drilling in U.S. waters: the National Response Center, an online reporting system for oil and chemical spills managed by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Since the spill began, clean - up crews have deployed over a million litres of dispersant on the surface and are now testing the chemicals on the sea floor at the source of the leak.

More than 40 tons of methyl isocyanate spilled from a Union Carbide - owned pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, in 1984, killing more than 20,000 people in the world's worst chemical disaster.

According to the UN's scientists, this should be possible simply by avoiding spills and heavy handed applications of the chemical.

Low temperature changes the chemical properties of spilled oil and slows down biodegradation.

It can also be used for collection of toxic waste, chemicals or oil spill and in drug delivery systems, for odor control and sanitation after fire.

They turned to genetic tests developed during Alaska's Exxon Valdez spill, where otters and other marine mammals were exposed to a surfeit of chemicals and carcinogens.

She spends most of her time giving advice to residents dealing with oil, chemical and hazardous waste spills and pollution, using her expertise to expose malfeasance by entrenched corporate interests without a second thought to her own personal safety.

Exposure to the slurry of water and other chemicals formed after coal is washed would be more dangerous to human health than exposure to MCMH — and there have been numerous coal slurry floods and spills in West Virginia and U.S. history.

In the midst of this scene stands Ian Buist, a chemical engineer who works with the U.S. Minerals Management Service, putting the finishing touches on a spill.

Chemical engineers use a helicopter equipped with a flamethrower — known as a helitorch — to set fire to a test spill of crude oil in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in 1994.

It capsizes and hundreds of tonnes of oily sludges laced with toxic chemicals spill out into an area of marine conservation.

In addition to causing obvious, immediate dangers such as drowning in a flood, extreme events can leave people without food and shelter, expose them to toxic chemical spills and facilitate the spread of disease.

As part of our coverage of the West Virginia chemical spill, C&EN contacted a number of ACS members living in the affected area.

Pesticide, herbicide and chemical fertilizer spills at homes and schools, for example, are some of the common reasons why previously healthy people join the ranks of the chemically sensitive and environmentally ill.

Synopsis: The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight to the s...

In classes with more than 24 students, 58 percent had a mishap — ranging from a minor chemical spill to an accident with injury — in the previous year, according to a 2001 survey of Texas teachers conducted by Ms. West.

Consulting the colorful compasses and graphs of the WeatherNet Classroom Web site, which track data captured by equipment mounted on the school's rooftop, the class puzzled over how best to survive a chemical spill on a nearby highway or the fallout of a small - scale atomic explosion in downtown Washington, located just 25 miles south of this quiet suburban community.