Sentences with phrase «of the safe drinking water act»

A new study showed that anywhere between 9 million and 45 million Americans got their drinking water from unsafe sources in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

The ongoing lead poisoning crisis in Flint, Michigan has shown not all water systems are safe from contamination — and, in fact, a recent analysis from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found around 77 million Americans are served by water systems with violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Not exact matches

California's Prop 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act requires companies to place a warning label on any product they sell within California if it exceeds the level that the State has established as risk - free for a list of over eight hundred chemicals.

According to California's regulations under the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (commonly referred to as «Prop 65», which is significantly stricter than the FDA on many levels), there is a «Safe Harbor» list of two classes of chemicals: those that cause reproductive toxicity and those that are considered carcinogens.

According to the Environmental Working Group, «many of the 250 - plus contaminants detected through water sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.&rwater sampling and testing are at levels that are perfectly legal under the Safe Drinking Water Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.&rWater Act or state regulations, but well above levels authoritative scientific studies have found to pose health risks.»

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.

Fracking is specifically exempted from much federal regulation, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974.

That's in part because the identity of the chemicals used by the gas industry for drilling and fracturing are protected as trade secrets, and because the EPA, based on an exemption passed under the 2005 Energy Policy Act, does not have authority to investigate the fracturing process under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agWater Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agwater, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

A new report charges that several oil and gas companies have been illegally using diesel fuel in their hydraulic fracturing operations, and then doctoring records to hide violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

But climate change naysayers were not relishing a return of Browner, who clashed with Republicans over the latters» attempts to dilute the Clean Water Act but also was praised for working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to strengthen the Safe Drinking Water and Food Quality Protection acts.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Prop 65 or the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 was voted into law by a landslide (63 percent).

Under the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effWater Act, public water systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effwater systems that provide you with tap water, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effwater, have to submit annual quality reports that reveal sources and levels of regulated contaminants, and their potential health effects.

Properties having community wells or sewage systems will require a state operating permit, evidence of compliance with the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act and a legal binding contract to enforce the obligation of the operator to provide satisfactory service at reasonable rates - must be maintained in our file.

The Clean Water Act in the United States, 40 years old last month, has spurred substantial progress and the world has, three years ahead of schedule, met a 2015 Millennium Development Goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking wWater Act in the United States, 40 years old last month, has spurred substantial progress and the world has, three years ahead of schedule, met a 2015 Millennium Development Goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking waterwater.

The FRAC Act called for the removal of hydraulic fracturing's exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act, and would have implemented federal regulation of the industry.

Industry activity is subject to a number of federal and state laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

A congressional investigation disclosed that companies across the country have illegally injected millions of gallons of diesel fuel underground without obtaining Safe Drinking Water Act permits.

But an energy policy task force Cheney helmed in spring 2001 highlighted fracking's potential, and it recommended a comprehensive exemption to the federal Safe Water Drinking Act for all types of fracking, not just for coalbed methane, which EPA was studying at the time.

Congress exempted hydraulic fracturing from EPA regulation under the Safe Drinking Water Act in the energy bill of 2005.

OW is responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act, and portions of the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Ocean Dumping Ban Act, Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, Shore Protection Act, Marine Plastics Pollution Research and Control Act, London Dumping Convention, the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships and several other statutes.

Democrats are committed to closing the Halliburton loophole that stripped the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its ability to regulate hydraulic fracturing, and ensuring tough safeguards are in place, including Safe Drinking Water Act provisions, to protect local water suppWater Act provisions, to protect local water suppwater supplies.

Then there's the issue of groundwater contamination, as fracking activities aren't subjected to the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

At the federal level, regulation is insufficient due to certain explicit exemptions from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act granted by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Within the Policy Brief, Lehr writes that the ten years following the establishment of the EPA in 1971 he «helped write a significant number of legislative bills that were to make up a true safety net for our environment,» including, «Water Pollution Control Act (later renamed the Clean Water Act), Safe Drinking Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (which, surprisingly, covered deep mines as well), Clean Air Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act, and Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (which we now know as Superfund).»

In addition, our litigators defend clients in a wide range of civil and criminal enforcement actions arising out of the major federal environmental statutes — including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Safe Drinking Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund), FIFRA, RCRA, TSCA, and EPCRA (Right - to - Know)-- as well as climate change regulation, renewable energy regulation, and project development.

He relied on a 1992 decision, Mattoon v. City of Pittsfield, by the 1st Circuit at Boston, which also found that the Safe Drinking Water Act precludes civil rights lawsuits resulting from water contaminatWater Act precludes civil rights lawsuits resulting from water contaminatwater contaminations.

Government officials also argue that a separate federal statute, the Safe Drinking Water Act, precludes all other causes of action.

While at the EPA Kushner oversaw enforcement of the Clean Air Act, Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Safe Drinking Water Act, and other environmental statutes.

Point of entry treatment unit has the same meaning as in subsection 1 (1) of Ontario Regulation 170/03 (Drinking Water Systems) made under the Safe Drinking Water Act, 2002.

Senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Tom Carper question whether Pruitt or one of his aides abused special hiring powers granted by the Safe Drinking Water Act.