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.
It not only inhibits b - glucuronidase, the enzyme that allows re-absorption of estrogen in the digestive tract, it also increases the detoxification activity of specific liver pathways that eliminate
other toxic waste.
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.
Not exact matches
Securing dangerous or controlled substances: Businesses in a wide range of industries use biometric devices — with hand - readers being a particularly popular option — to help monitor access to
toxic chemicals, radioactive
waste, narcotic drugs and
other potentially hazardous materials.
Swan Hills wasn't mobile and
other provinces weren't too crazy about the risk of shipping
toxic waste.
However, more and more, whales and
other sea animals are exposed to
toxic waste in the water where they live and eat.
The new landfill would be large enough to fill 1,200 Olympic sized pools with
toxic materials contaminated with PCBs, lead and asbestos and
other hazardous
waste.
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.
Oftentimes residents will protest
toxic waste dumps and
other health threats only within their state borders, feeling immune to identical risks that are in neighboring states but even closer by.
These pollutants include not only leaked motor oil — which may contain
toxic substances like lead, benzene, zinc or magnesium — but also fertilizers, insecticides, plastic debris, cigarette butts, paints, solvents, sediments and
other hazardous
waste.
In the last decade, chemists have worked to develop reusable catalysts that separate out from the end products without the help of
other often -
toxic and
waste - generating chemicals.
For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of
waste in radium and
other radioactive elements (as well as
toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
For every metric ton of uranium ore pulled from McArthur River, roughly one metric ton of
waste rock, often radioactive and rich in
toxic heavy metals, is produced — and
other mines produce even more
waste rock per ton of ore.
While acknowledging that «no wreck has yet been found that contains
toxic or radioactive
waste,» physicist Massimo Scalia of the University of Rome, La Sapienza, who has chaired two parliamentary commissions on illegal
waste disposal, argues that
other vidence makes their existence «beyond reasonable doubt.»
Put together, arsenic, chromium, lead, mercury and pesticides are the leading causes of such
toxic hot spots largely created by mining, metal smelting, chemical manufacture, agriculture, heavy industry, tanneries and
waste disposal, among
other activities.
The study authors said the same approach is being applied to a search for biomarkers across a wide range of biological systems, from
other infectious agents such as Salmonella to soil microbes of interest in cleaning up
toxic waste.
These organisms thrive where
other microbes don't dare venture: boiling water holes, freezing lakes, and
toxic waste dumps.
One day,
other scientists might tap them to clean up
toxic waste.
While muscle, joint, and
other general body aches can happen for a number of reasons which should be evaluated by your health care practitioner, when there's no
other identifiable cause, it often means there's
toxic waste built up in the system.
Urea itself is not particularly
toxic, but
other nitrogenous
waste products are neurotoxic and can cause death at high enough levels.
But chances are, as your body lets go of
toxic waste, it will be easier to recognize a hidden reaction to gluten, dairy, soy or any of the
other common food allergies.
According to wikipedia, the environmental concerns of lithium batteries, though not negligible, are at least manageable:» Since Li - ion batteries contain less
toxic metals than
other types of batteries which may contain lead or cadmium [53] they are generally categorized as non-hazardous
waste».
A sluggish digestive system can cause a buildup of
toxic waste in your body, and this shows up in the form of extra weight around your midsection, as well as in blemishes and dullness in your skin, among
other things.
In addition to acting and producing, Danson is an environmental activist, founding the American Oceans Campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Americans to the life - threatening hazards created by oil spills, off - shore development,
toxic wastes, sewage pollution and
other ocean abuses.
Ray: The term «shop supplies» generally refers to things like solvents, cleaners, small quantities of fluids, rags, the servicing of the parts - cleaning machine, and the disposal of
waste oil and
other environmentally
toxic materials.
In addition, we may consider
other factors we believe to be important to investors interested in sustainability, such as land use, biodiversity, involvement in
toxic spills or releases, operational
waste, water management, factory farming, cluster munitions, tobacco, and child labor, among
other factors.
I would add in
other asset classes as well: credit default, emerging markets, junk bonds, low - quality stocks, the
toxic waste of Asset - and Mortgage - backed securities, and private equity.
We warn about the PHYSICAL impacts of Sea Level Rise, but I don't see any info or concern about the early effects of inundations into the lowlands, where these include Contaminated Land, Landfills, Cemeteries,
Toxic / Radioactive
waste, Repositories, Ammunition dumps, Underground fuel stores, Plague / Ebola / Foot & Mouth / Anthrax pits or those harbouring
other virulent pathogens with pandemic potential.
But if we replace these sources of energy with
others that allow us to continue modern industrial society's implicit program of turning everything on earth into
toxic waste, success against GW will be a rather hollow victory (not that I think any kind of real total «success» on this front is really possible at this point in any human time scale).
It can detect the exact location of
toxic waste, diesel and
other hydrocarbons and how far they have spread through that part of the ocean.
Over his career, Commoner worked on nuclear fallout, pesticides, water contamination, air pollution,
toxic metals, the petrochemical industry, population, energy and nuclear power, urban
waste disposal, dioxin, recycling, and all manner of
other environmental issues.
Andy: I sent you a short treatise on using pyrolysis to destroy germs,
toxics and drugs in
wastes and separated sewage solids with several
others benefits such as curbing some needless GHG reemitting.
Other activists also shut down a coal loader, and unfurled another banner at one of the
toxic coal ash ponds that stores the plant's hazardous
waste products.
Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of
toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.
In a few years Greenpeace spread to several countries and started to campaign on
other environmental issues such as commercial whaling and
toxic waste.
Imagine how future generations are going to feel having been dumped with the responsibility to maintain the safety of mountains of
toxic nuclear
waste throughtout their time and onto
other future generations, a
toxic mess that does nothing for them economically while increasing their vulnerability to many forms of cancer.
We are leaving
toxic wastes behind for
others to deal with, essentially forever in Human terms.
Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and
other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of
toxic sludge and solid
waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting
waste and debris [81].
And as with many
other forms of impermanent art, crafting an image on a banana requires no
toxic art materials and results in no additional
waste.
For some, it may be only
waste paper or dirty water; for
others, it may be hazardous or
toxic wastes that require special handling and disposal.
He has successfully represented clients in matters involving hazardous substances, air and water quality, land use,
toxic torts and other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water & Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory is
toxic torts and
other environmental matters, including state and federal Superfund liability, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permitting and compliance issues, California's Safe Drinking Water &
Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous waste regulatory is
Toxic Enforcement Act (Proposition 65) and hazardous
waste regulatory issues.
We provide astute representation in litigation and regulatory matters involving hazardous substances and
wastes, air and water quality, land use, CEQA,
toxic torts and
other environmental matters.
For any claim arising from damage to any property whatsoever or any loss or expenses whatsoever resulting or arising from or any consequential loss directly or indirectly caused by or contributed to by or arising from Ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear
waste from the combustion fuel or the radioactive,
toxic, explosive or
other hazardous properties of any explosive nuclear assembly or nuclear component thereof.
Ionizing radiation or contamination by radioactivity from any nuclear fuel or from any nuclear
waste, from combustion of nuclear fuel, the radioactive,
toxic, explosive or
other hazardous properties of any nuclear assembly or nuclear component of such assembly.
In many cases, companies are unaware of
toxic waste leaks or
other environmental pollution problems.