Sentences with phrase «of toxic water»

Despite the attention in Flint, recent news reports indicate these types of toxic water conditions are found elsewhere in the country, including San Diego.

«When you have the development of oil sand deposits, there are vast landscapes that go on for miles that are barren and a lot of big lakes of toxic water that have been used in the process of extracting the oil,» said Jack Woodward, the lawyer representing them.

Chamber officials say the agency held a large - scale public hearing in the 1970s on the subject of toxic water pollutants.

Unfortunately, if EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has his way, our waterways and our health will remain threatened by our nation's leading source of toxic water pollution — coal fired power plants.

The report says coal - fired power plants are the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

Coal plants are now by far the largest source of toxic water pollution in the country.

A jungle and castle level with Snake Blocks and a long pit of toxic water.

In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, 72 percent of all toxic water pollution in the country comes from coal - fired power plants, making coal plants the number one source of toxic water pollution in the U.S. (1) What's more, four out of five coal plants in the U.S. have no limits on the amount of toxics they are allowed to dump into our water.

We still need authorities to pull people out of toxic waters, repair levees, and keep order.

Not exact matches

These new activities for Veolia include the likes of plastics and chemicals recycling, toxic waste handling, the management of water for aquaculture, the production of energy from waste or biomass and the capture of methane.

Mark Rubinstein, the lead author of the study, said «the vapor produced by e-cigarettes is not harmless water vapor, but actually contains some of the same toxic chemicals found in smoke from traditional cigarettes.»

The «shot» is his equally revolutionary vapor - compression water distiller, which can make pure medicinal - grade water out of anything that's wet, even urine or toxic waste — water so clean you could inject it into your arm.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

But since February, a toxic stew of factors — many but certainly not all of them emanating from Washington — has polluted what had been the market's placidly rising waters.

An allegation can concern embezzlement, pouring out of toxic waste / human waste into public waters, building safety code violations, stating that those with AIDS should accept «god's punishment and simply die», and on and on.

The toxic waters of Churchianity were the reason I criticized your «Who Has the Living Water» cartoon.

At church, they're also known to ingest a mixture of strychnine - a highly toxic powder often used as a pesticide - and water, often from a Mason jar.

«It allows users to eliminate toxic chemicals and use electrolyzed salt water to do everything from running dishwashers to sanitizing food prep surfaces to making «active» ice that prolongs the life of food.

Many processing stages result in large amounts of untreated toxic wastewater being carried into drinking water sources.

Organic agriculture protects the health of people and the planet by reducing overall exposure to toxic chemicals from synthetic pesticides that can end up in the ground, air, water and food supply, and that are associated with health consequences, from asthma to cancer.

It is kind of interesting how we seem to generally ignore all the news about toxic water, yet we continually get transfixed on «miracle cures».

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Many brands produce their spirulina in toxic waters, and since our oceans are filled with mercury and toxins on so many accounts due to climate change and pollution, it's highly important to choose a brand of spirulina that has direct control over the growth and control of the production of their spirulina products.

So strict certification ensures Bhumi products are made (from harvest to shelf to skin) without the use of any harmful chemicals, allergens, insecticides, pesticides, toxic dyes, bleaches or finishes, does not use genetically modified seeds and uses less water than regular cotton.

My life before Bhumi was in International Public Health and it was here that I saw first hand the disastrous health and environmental impacts of traditional cotton growing with farmer suicides, child labour, pesticide poisoning, birth defects, harmful dyes and toxic water ways.

They're also high in iodine which we need for healthy thyroid levels, and when you buy from an organic source, they're free of mercury and heavy metals that hurt our health (unlike fish which is incredibly toxic due to the polluted waters it is found in and the way it is produced.)

In the face of formidable threats — deforestation, soil erosion, and water pollution from toxic agrochemicals — the government and private sector have turned to the Rainforest Alliance to help safeguard the future of Ceylon tea, which accounts for 19 percent of the global tea supply.

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.

The Green Revolution led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides leading to large scale environmental pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.

To help you navigate through the toxic waters that have formed in the area where the poisonous political basin met the not - so - pristine waters of conference realignment, let's go to the scorecard.

Experts warn that despite city assurances, tap water might still carry toxic amounts of the chemical.

On top of this, millions of tons of untreated waste from the used diapers are added to our landfills as well, along with potentially - toxic chemicals that can find their way into our ground water tables.

Some ingredients from just one of the manufacturers we carry: — Recycled Rubber wood (clean, natural rubber wood recycled from rubber trees no longer able to produce latex); — Non-Chemical Preservative Wood (stabilized using a chemical - free kiln - drying process); — Non-Formaldehyde Glue (toys assembled using a non-formaldehyde glue in place of the traditional toxic wood glue); — Water Based Dye (non-toxic, water based dyes to add accent colors to products, containing no heavy metal elements such as lead, mercury, eWater Based Dye (non-toxic, water based dyes to add accent colors to products, containing no heavy metal elements such as lead, mercury, ewater based dyes to add accent colors to products, containing no heavy metal elements such as lead, mercury, etc..)

It uses gravity water filtration technology to remove toxic elements, parasites, bacteria and hundreds of other contaminants from water without removing the beneficial minerals, and without the use of any electricity.

If another adult is present, ask for help holding your child while you run the water toward the inside of the eye to flush out the toxic substance.

Our well - intentioned but over-exuberant ministrations of water, soaps, and lotions, strip away the skin's natural oils leading to dryness and irritation, and frequently expose your baby's tender skin to harsh (and, arguably, toxic) ingredients such as sodium lauryl sulfate, preservatives, and artificial fragrances.

In an email to its members, the NYLCV touted Avella's «tireless work» on some of the organization's key agenda items, like getting toxic chemicals out of children's products, promoting clean energy and protecting clean drinking water.

The village of Hoosick Falls has received a $ 220,000 grant from the state Environmental Facilities Corp. to help cover engineering and other expenses that followed the discovery three years ago of a toxic chemical in the community's water supplies.

Since then, we have all learned a lot about the risks of fracking — about how the toxic chemicals used can migrate into drinking water, about how methane can leak out of well casements, about the danger of disposing of billions of gallons of polluted wastewater the process produces.

Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club commented: «Mike Bloomberg's partnership with the Sierra Club and our more than 3 million members and supporters has put our country on a path to cleaner air and cleaner water, good - paying clean energy jobs, and healthier communities that are safe from toxic coal pollution».

The two Democrats made their call at Washington Lake, Newburgh's main drinking water supply, where toxic PFOS contamination was found in the spring of 2016.

Hoosick Falls residents came to the Capitol on Wednesday to demand hearings on the water crisis that has revealed high levels of a toxic chemical in many people's blood streams.

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.

By Jesse McKinley ALBANY — For the second time in two weeks, New York State Department of Health officials sought to blame the Environmental Protection Agency for a contaminated water crisis in upstate New York, saying on Wednesday that they were confused and hamstrung by changing federal standards on perfluorooctanoic acid, a toxic chemical known as PFOA.

ALBANY — The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well, Cuomo administration officials announced alongside local elected leaders during a press conference Wednesday.

The public hearing held by the DEC yielded 6000 comments raising several new concerns about risks to our water supply such as the presence of a toxic chemical dump in the middle of the pipeline alignment.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation notified public officials today that water samples taken Saturday near the pier and the stairs to the beach contain high levels of a liver toxic produced by the blue - green algae.

Matt Manning said their water was a toxic stew of dangerous chemicals — with unacceptable levels of methane, arsenic, lithium, aluminum, manganese, barium and iron.

Tests of water from Wainscott residents» wells for the presence of two toxic compounds linked to health problems continued this week under the auspices of the county and state Health Departments.