Sentences with phrase «risks polluting water»
Drilling for shale gas raises serious safety concerns and risks polluting water supplies — and it could take vital funding away from the clean energy solutions we know are safe and will work.
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Given that we are rich when the world is poor, that we cling to our nuclear arms as if world extermination were a noble risk, destroy ancient forests, gouge the landscape, pollute the soil, water and air, that we copulate and abort with unrestrained abandon — how then are we to interpret Jesus» words, «It is what comes out of a person that defiles,» so as to come up smelling like roses?
We can not blow up the world and continue to live on it; we can not destroy the ozone layer without risking skin cancer; we can not pollute all waters and be able to drink; we can not denude the surface of trees and expect the soil not to erode.
Yet due to age and lack of maintenance, the pipes, pumping 20 million gallons of oil and natural gas daily, are at risk of bursting — and therefore polluting the drinking water of the neighboring 30 million Americans and Canadians.
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.
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 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.
Dan Shapley, Riverkeeper's water quality program manager, said the city's residents deserve to know if their health is at risk because the public water supply was polluted.
Ghana risks not meeting the 2030 target of the SDG since the illegal mining has badly polluted most of its water bodies.
«Finally, the Cuomo administration has embraced what we have known all along — that fracking pollutes the air, land and water, posing incalculable risks to families and business across New York, especially those near drilling sites, «said GPNY Co-Chair Gloria Mattera.
Greenpeace argued that while it is not currently possible to quantify the exact risks, any CO2 leakage from underground has the potential to affect the surrounding environment, raising the dangers of polluted soil and water, and even suffocation.
Heart disease risk factors: environmental exposure to xenobiotics, polluted water, BPA, radon gas, arsenic, obesity, etc..
We now conduct weekly bacteria sampling at 12 area beaches from November through March and provide timely public notification of our results to help ocean users avoid risking their health by swimming in polluted water.
conducting weekly bacteria sampling at 12 beaches across southern Santa Barbara County from November through March (when the County no longer provides this service) and providing timely public notification of our results through various print and online media so people can avoid risking their health by recreating in polluted water; and
Many Kenyans make a daily choice: use polluting woodstoves to purify their water or risk serious ailments.
In a new report the group says delivering critical infrastructure must be prioritised, otherwise the country risks polluted drinking water, extensive flood damage and power blackouts.
When preparing such a zoning and related regulations, factors like population density, the ecological sensitivity of the area concerned, closeness to polluting industry, closeness to sources of drinking water, etc. should be taken into account as well as the potential risks related to certain types of urban agriculture.
The world's biggest coal companies want to ship 100 million tons of coal each year to Asia through Northwest ports — spreading toxic coal dust in dozens of our rail communities, clogging our railroads and ports, risking our families» health, and polluting our air and water.
The families make a daily choice: use polluting woodstoves to purify their water or risk serious disease.
«The Surfrider Foundation has been working for decades to warn surfers and swimmers about the health risks of swimming in polluted water,» says Surfrider Foundation Environmental Director Chad Nelsen.
Polluted runoff from both rural and urban lands increases erosion and puts public health at risk by contaminating drinking water supplies.
Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing «dead zones», toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with polluted waters.