Sentences with phrase «toxic sites»

No one accepts responsibility for a de pressed or anxious work force, a useless or poorly made product, or Superfund toxic sites that will cost millions of dollars to clean up.

In 2002, Senator Smith collaborated with City and State officials to negotiate an agreement yielding $ 10 million to clean up the Westside Corporation Toxic Site in Jamaica, Queens.

Researchers are investigating particles such as self - assembled monolayers on mesoporous supports (SAMMS ™), dendrimers, and carbon nanotubes to determine how to apply their unique chemical and physical properties for various kinds of toxic site remediation.

Opening Gallagher Beach for swimming is «probably impractical from a public health standpoint» because of stormwater pollution, sediment contamination and neighboring toxic sites, a consultant for the Erie County Health Department has concluded.

That work, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives on May 4, found that living near toxic sites leads to health impacts comparable to all the combined malaria issues in those three countries, or as much as the total negative impacts of air pollution.

He and fellow researchers analyzed what lead exposure from the soil and water at toxic sites in 31 low - and middle - income countries could mean for the long - term health of infants and toddlers living in the surrounding communities.

In recent interviews, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt made two false claims about his agency's record on removing toxic sites from the Superfund National Priorities List.

Citizens also can similarly use my firm's toxic site internet map server.

Adblock plus, with prefbar, allows me to set a different user agent than it actually is, turn off javascript, cookies, referral, so I can browse even the most toxic sites without worry of infection or endless popup loops.

While there is no clear evidence that they cause cancer in humans, their various harmful effects in lab animals were enough to prompt the Environmental Protection Agency to designate some 200 miles of the Hudson as a Superfund toxic site 25 years ago.

Few people venture to the area other than specialized expeditions, however, because it is such a harrowing experience to cross its borders — plus, the Southern Reach has spread a rumor that it's an environmentally damaged region, a sort of toxic site.

The list derives from Blacksmith's survey of more than 2,000 toxic sites in 47 different countries in the developing world.

Environmentalists are holding up the toxic site cleanup program's renewal as a measure of a successful legislative session.

Environmental advocates are pressing the state legislature to renew a toxic site cleanup program before the session wraps up in a few days, even though there seems little interest in taking up any big issues in Albany.

Bringing it back to the environmental racism, environmental justice issue: we've got all these toxic sites, lead, old industrial plant facilities in neighborhoods like Ramon's [Ramon Jimenez, Green Party candidate for state Attorney General] in the South Bronx; the south side of Syracuse where I live.

This Retro Report video casts that mixed legacy this way: «While sometimes criticized as costly and bureaucratic, Superfund has led to the remediation of nearly 400 toxic sites.

(Decades ago, emissions from an RSR smelter in West Dallas, Tex., ended up producing a Superfund toxic site; these days the company has been pushing regulators to toughen environmental standards.)

Sierra Club Canada works to deliver a healthier environment for a healthy population by working to protect both the quantity and quality of our water, reduce and divert waste, ensure the clean up of toxic sites, and fight the sources of pollution affecting air, water, and land.