Sentences with phrase «of toxic waste sites»

Sure, the snack may be made of completely organic ingredients, but since you didn't make it and since it's in a package, she thinks that you are basically feeding your kid something that you picked up out of a toxic waste site.

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Independent environmental advocacy groups have already been warning that benzene levels in some areas of Texas have reached worrying highs, while more than a dozen toxic waste sites were also flooded or destroyed.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

Just think back a few decades — the Inner Harbor was an eyesore to our city and region, a toxic waste site that squandered one of our city's most magnificent natural assets.

California officials have ordered an emergency shut - down of 11 oil and gas waste injection sites and a review more than 100 others in the state's drought - wracked Central Valley out of fear that companies may have been pumping fracking fluids and other toxic waste into drinking water aquifers there.

«A huge proportion of the factory site is full of very toxic waste,» said Colin Toogood, the report's author.

The P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.

In addition, the site of improperly performed dental extractions can act as a reservoir for infection, releasing toxic waste and pathogens via the lymphatic system into the rest of the body.

Richmond is nestled within a ring of five major oil refineries, three chemical companies, eight Superfund sites, dozens of other toxic waste sites, highways, two rail yards, plus a port that supplies tankers.

Using new population - level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002, this paper examines the short and long - term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particularly severe.

The Trump administration has handed a rare victory to environmentalists, ordering two big corporations this week to pay $ 115 million to clean up a Texas toxic waste site that may have spread dangerous levels of pollution during flooding from Hurricane...

The Environmental Protection Agency has removed a toxic waste site flooded by Hurricane Harvey from a special list of contaminated sites that require the personal attention of the agency's leader, because it says there's been significant progress on a cleanup plan.

Staff doubles it as metaphor for the use of certain chemicals in hormone therapy, while vistas of desolate freeways and toxic waste sites flicker in and out; Soshoux appears as an infrared inversion, a swift comment on technology's mercilessness in transforming human beings into anonymous data points.

I have a piece on the Booming blog of The Times looking back at the complicated environmental and political legacy of the Love Canal toxic waste site 35 years after state and federal officials declared an environmental emergency there.

Gibbs fought for years to get the site cleaned - up and went on to become the founding director of the CHEJ, an organization that helps local communities combat toxic waste and environmental issues across the country.

Sierra Club Canada works to deliver a healthier environment for a healthy population by working to protect both the quantity and quality of our water, reduce and divert waste, ensure the clean up of toxic sites, and fight the sources of pollution affecting air, water, and land.

«If, in the past, we had listened to a small number of skeptics, we wouldn't have addressed dirty air or endangered species or toxic - waste sites, and our quality of life would have suffered greatly.

This toxic sludge often must be disposed of at hazardous waste sites [7].

Reclaiming deserts would also be one of my top 10 fixes in the US after we clean up all the toxic waste sites including PCBs in rivers and streams.

However, the proposed site of the new mega-base is situated precariously close to a serious environmental nuisance.The facility in question, Ramat Hovav, is a combination industrial area and toxic waste dump, and has been a serious nuisance to residents of Israel's desert south for years.

Blankenship is an arch criminal responsible for the deaths of those 29 miners, the destruction of 500 mountains (plus many miles of forest and waterways) and harming local Appalachian communities with toxic waste, fly rock and refuse from mountaintop removal sites.