Sentences with phrase «set drinking water standards»

«The EPA and state regulators must set drinking water standards to protect the public, including those more susceptible to the toxic effects of chromium - 6,» the EWG report reads.

«We really want to see the state act very quickly to set a drinking water standard.

Less than two weeks before the Bush administration left office, the EPA announced that it would delay its long - awaited decision on whether to set a drinking water standard for perchlorate until the National Academy of Sciences weighed in on the issue.That announcement effectively punted the decision to current EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, who promised to regulate perchlorate at her confirmation hearing.

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Many of the rice drinks had levels that exceed the US Environmental Protection Agencies standard for maximum arsenic contaminant level in drinking water, which is currently set at 10 parts per billion.

«This is about disclosure and empowering consumers,» said state Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach), who has filed a bill to ban the sale in of cosmetic and cleaning products with 1,4 - dioxane in New York, and require the state to set a safe drinking water standard for the chemical.

He won bipartisan approval of a law setting testing and safety standards for drinking water in every public school — the first law of its kind in the United States.

Senate Republicans also proposed a Drinking Water Quality Institute made up of public health experts, scientists and water providers to help set standards on unregulated contaminWater Quality Institute made up of public health experts, scientists and water providers to help set standards on unregulated contaminwater providers to help set standards on unregulated contaminants.

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-- empowered by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agWater Act (SDWA) of 1974 (and amended in 1986 and 1996) to set national safety standards — has urged communities since 1996 to cut back on chlorine, which produces harmful by - products when added to water, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agwater, including trihalomethanes and haloacetic acids, known cancer - causing agents.

Since there is no federal standard for arsenic in most food, Consumer Reports compared the samples with the standard set for drinking water in New Jersey: 5 micrograms per liter, the strictest regulation in the nation.

This plastic device screws onto standard water bottles and features an adjustable roller ball setting that allows pets to drink freely.