Sentences with phrase «test school drinking water»

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer will introduce legislation to test school drinking water for lead contamination.

The marathon 20 hours of wheeling and dealing behind closed doors produced votes to approve a last - minute ethics bill, a mandate to test school drinking water supplies for lead, money for SUNY and CUNY, more money and operating flexibility for charter schools, $ 570 million for «supportive housing» for the homeless, and continued state control of the New York Racing Association until October 2017.

In accordance with New York legislation signed into law on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, Union - Endicott Central School District began testing school drinking water for possible lead contamination.

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Despite this, the Christy Clark government refuses to test drinking water in other schools and public buildings such as social housing.

In it, she reports on the possibility of using a little - noticed provision in the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act to require schools to test their drinking water for dangerous contaminants such as lead.

In Muscogee County, home of Columbus, a school district spokesperson said the district doesn't test the drinking water for lead «because none of our schools are fed with lead pipes for water.»

It does recommend, however, that all schools test their water outlets used for drinking.

Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.

The end of the session that year included agreements for lead testing in school drinking water, backed by Sen. Tom O'Mara, and the enactment of mixed - martial arts legalization, which the Senate had repeatedly passed.

Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

State mandated drinking water testing has found high lead levels in eleven local school districts.

Cuomo's office has also worked to bolster its clean water credentials, signing a bill this week that would require New York schools to test for lead in drinking water.

Senate Republican spokesman Scott Reif in a statement knocked Cronin, noting the amount of support backed by Hannon for water quality in the budget, as well as legislation to test for lead in school drinking water.

Schumer said his bill would help daycare centers and schools across the state to test drinking water for possible lead contamination.

State lawmakers have held three hearings on water issues over the last several weeks, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo this month signed legislation that would require all schools to test for lead in school drinking water.

Cuomo made the announcement on the mayoral control extension as part of a broader agreement on a range of issues, including an extension of state control of the New York Racing Association, testing for lead in school drinking water and new flexibility for charter schools to allow them to switch to the Board of Trustees of State University of New York for oversight.

Buffalo Public Schools have been working with the Erie County Health Department to test the water at several thousand faucets and drinking fountains across 58 schools in the district, said Elena Cala, the district's spokeswoman, on Schools have been working with the Erie County Health Department to test the water at several thousand faucets and drinking fountains across 58 schools in the district, said Elena Cala, the district's spokeswoman, on schools in the district, said Elena Cala, the district's spokeswoman, on Friday.

Every one of the state's 728 public school districts must run lead tests on the water coming from drinking fountains and most of the sinks in every school building.

«That includes this year's landmark achievements to fully fund the Environmental Protection Fund and the new law just signed to require schools statewide to test their drinking water systems for lead contamination.

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.

Last month, state law went into effect requiring all schools test their drinking water for the toxic material.

U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to send inspectors to the City of Ithaca to test drinking water sources in all Ithaca City Schools.

He brings a civil engineer's understanding to it, fighting for lead testing in schools and now looking to establish a source of emergency funding to help schools resolve drinking water issues quickly.

To test this hypothesis, a team led by microbiologist Martin Blaser of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City added antibiotics to the drinking water of mice that had just been weaned.

Trib looks at results of lead testing in drinking water in Utah public schools.

While testing was being conducted, our school set up mobile water stations for students to drink on each floor.

The Virginia Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water (VDH - ODW) indicates that school facilities that are served by a public water system are not required by state law or regulation to test water at an individual school, unless the school is served by a community waterworks that has identified the school as one of their test sites, or the school is served by its own independent water system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterwWater (VDH - ODW) indicates that school facilities that are served by a public water system are not required by state law or regulation to test water at an individual school, unless the school is served by a community waterworks that has identified the school as one of their test sites, or the school is served by its own independent water system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterwwater system are not required by state law or regulation to test water at an individual school, unless the school is served by a community waterworks that has identified the school as one of their test sites, or the school is served by its own independent water system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterwwater at an individual school, unless the school is served by a community waterworks that has identified the school as one of their test sites, or the school is served by its own independent water system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterwwater system (typically a well water system) that is regulated by the state as a waterwwater system) that is regulated by the state as a waterworks.

There's still a lot of money on the table for Michigan schools that wish to test their drinking water for lead.

House Bill 1925 would require testing of all drinking and cooking water inside schools, while outlining reasonable and affordable mitigation if lead is found.»

But the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency «strongly recommends» schools test drinking water for lead.

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