Sentences with phrase «of water contamination»

The risk of water contamination from fracking remains largely unknown.

Other studies have been finding an effect to property values too, particularly due to a perceived risk among the public of water contamination of living near the wells.

This causes significant physical stress on their bodies over time and presents serious risk of water contamination.

The report also examined cases of water contamination in Newburgh and on Long Island which have also drawn scrutiny.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer says he will introduce legislation that would require the Air Force to identify the source of water contamination in Newburgh and pay to clean it up if a base nearby is responsible.

In the case of water contamination in Hoosick Falls, a village - produced timeline that describes months of outreach to elected officials has been disputed by several state and federal lawmakers.

Company Saint - Gobain, whose building on McCaffrey Street is at the center of the water contamination issue, is paying for the filtration system.

«The fact that Senator, Kemp Hannon, who chairs the Senate Health Committee, claims to have not known about the severity of the water contamination crisis in Hoosick Falls is inexcusable,» Cronin said in a statement.

There have been no reported cases of water contamination from geothermal sites in the United States [2].

Right now, Christy Clark and her government are refusing to address the problem of water contamination in schools, and that refusal is putting children at risk,» said Rice.

HOOSICK FALLS >> The Democrat running against incumbent state Sen. Kathy Marchione found a unique and high - profile way Tuesday to criticize the Halfmoon Republican over her handling of the water contamination crisis that has plagued the village and the town of Hooisick for nearly a year.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released new health advisories for PFOA and PFOS, the manufacturing chemicals at the center of water contamination crises in several communities in the region including Hoosick Falls, Petersburgh, and North Bennington.

So the enviro activist fear of water contamination is absurd on its face.

«Recent reports of water contamination in municipalities across the state have highlighted the need for a thorough review of measures to ensure clean and healthy water in our communities,» Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said in a statement.

The North Dakota project, opposed by a Native American tribe fearful of water contamination from potential oil leaks, had stalled in Democrat Barack Obama's administration.

In New York, the means happen to be the dangers of water contamination and other health hazards.

The story of water contamination in Hoosick Falls in one of uncertainty, a situation beyond one's control, a precariousness that breeds worry and mistrust.

Democratic candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon traveled to Hoosick Falls on Wednesday, a small village near the Vermont border that has grappled with the impacts of water contamination residents say the state did not act on fast enough.

Cuomo included the funding in the budget after Senate Republicans initially proposed a clean water bond act in the wake of water contamination issues arising in small upstate communities.

After enduring heavy criticism last week for not being more proactive in reaching out to the public about the possibility of water contamination, the authority sent out robocalls Monday to 96,000 households for which it had phone numbers.

After a string of water contamination issues across the state, the Gotham Gazette reassesses he episode in which the Cuomo administration sought to use clean water funds to pay for the Tappan Zee Bridge construction.

His father, John, worked for decades at the Saint - Gobain Performance Plastics plant on McCaffrey Street, which has been the focus of water contamination in the village.

Marking 500 days of water contamination in Hoosick Falls, residents gathered at the state capitol on Thursday to pressure state leaders to find a new, uncontaminated source.

A spate of water contamination problems in Pennsylvania have been linked to new natural gas drilling in the state

At that time, «we were working on bacteriophages as an indicator of water contamination» by bacteria, explains Araujo.

Records also show wells are frequently operated in violation of safety regulations and under conditions that greatly increase the risk of fluid leakage and the threat of water contamination.

Using filters, safe water sources, larvicide, and most importantly, health education to encourage water filtration and prevention of water contamination, dracunculiasis transmission has been interrupted in all but four countries (Southern Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, and Ghana), with most remaining cases in Southern Sudan.

While these symptoms of water contamination may be distinguished by our senses, highly threatening water pollutants will not be detected without having the water tested.

As if this dramatic threat is not stressful enough, people in the area also live with the lingering concerns of water contamination and ailments from dry ash circulated by the wind.

Researchers have just reported the results of their study into the source of water contamination related to fracking wells in Pennsylvania and Texas.

Anyone who is paying attention to this issue, and who doesn't have an ideological ax to grind, knows that the evidence is far from clear concerning the nature and extent of water contamination and methane emissions related to natural gas extraction.

Evidence of water contamination was first discovered in the early 1980s, though records show that Marine leaders were initially slow to respond to these findings.

A 2009 lawsuit alleging lead poisoning as a result of water contamination in Washington, D.C., centers on alleged contamination dating to 2001.

Ms. Evangelisti has been a frequent speaker and presenter on legal topics concerning the prosecution of water contamination cases involving the gasoline additive MTBE and other contaminants of concern.

«New technology helps pinpoint sources of water contamination.»

The Cuomo administration has continued to criticize the EPA's handling of the water contamination in the village, arguing the levels of PFOA in water had shifted and were inconsistent.

Concern over potential environmental impacts could also affect the value of a home, such as the fear of water contamination (especially if a home uses private water wells), oil spills, and pipeline leaks.

Now a study has shown that the real safety concern is the proximity of water wells to gas wells, and that fracking does not appear to increase the risk of water contamination.

In 2006, a physician working at a clinic in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., raised the alarm over what he considered high rates of cancer in the community, the result, he surmised, of water contamination from the oilsands operations upstream.

Since 2008, ProPublica has reported about hundreds of cases of water contamination in more than six states where drilling and fracking are taking place as well as the difficulties of handling the vast quantities of waste the drilling processes produce.

This also comes three days after U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer visited Washington Lake and said he would introduce legislation that would require the U.S. Air Force to identify the source of water contamination in Newburgh and pay for remediation if the Stewart Air National Guard base is indeed found to be responsible.

The Saint Gobain plastics manufacturing plant in Hoosick Falls is believed to be the source of the water contamination.

The State Department of Environmental Conservation, which is to investigate the source of the water contamination in the private wells in Wainscott, will present its plan to the public early next year, Ms. Burke - Gonzalez said at Tuesday's town board meeting.

Over 100 residents gathered at the Hoosick Falls Center School to learn the results of PFOA testing at four sites in the village and find out what the next steps are in addressing the issues of water contamination in Hoosick Falls.

They say the purpose of the hearing is to «explore the sources of water contamination, examine local, state, and federal oversight issues, and hear from experts, local residents, and others on what can be done to assist affected communities and mitigate future incidents.»

In a statement, Republican Majority Leader John Flanagan said the hearings would allow the Senate «to explore the sources of water contamination, examine state and federal oversight issues, and determine how we can prevent this from happening in the future.»

«We're going to examine the issue of water contamination and assess our current laws and public policies on these matters, and how they're working, to protect public access to safe, clean water.»

Focusing on U.S. Marine Corps Master Sergeant Jerry Ensminger's unrelenting efforts to expose the extreme cover - up of one of the worst cases of water contamination in U.S. history at Camp Lejune, this is an unforgettable film.