Sentences with phrase «waste dump in»

The horror of the crime and the defendant's U.K. roots have brought an international media gallery to Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn, Mass., a city previously known in international legal lore as the setting for the toxic waste dump in the book and movie, A Civil Action.

Every waste dump in the U.S. leaks radiation into the environment, and nuclear plants themselves are running out of ways to store highly radioactive waste on site.

A politically connected waste management company operates a radioactive waste dump in Texas that sits atop one of North America's largest aquifers — a recipe for environmental disaster.

The legislation also includes provisions that would continue efforts to open a national nuclear waste dump in Nevada, prevent the Obama administration from moving ahead with new environmental rules aimed at strengthening protections for small streams and wetlands, and bar adding the sage grouse to the endangered species list.

(Reuters)- Managers mishandled a radiation leak at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump in which 21 workers were exposed to airborne radioactive particles due in part to substandard equipment and safety systems, a U.S. investigator said on Wednesday.

One hundred and seventy three (173) evacuators of the toxic waste dump in Koko community Delta State, out of which forty were reported to have feared...

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

There are some citizens out there who feel having a nuclear waste dump in their backyard is madness.

Nevada's longest - serving senator helped propel the passage of President Barack Obama's signature health care law, blocked the development of a nuclear waste dump in Nevada and built a well - organized Democratic machine in the state.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

The budget for the Department of Energy would include $ 120 million to restart licensing for the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump in Nevada, a project that has been stalled for years because of lawsuits and local opposition.

Initially Esposito was due to face Republican Anthony Senft, but he dropped out of the race in the midst of a controversy over waste dumping in a local park.

The United Church of Christ — a pioneer in the environmental justice movement in the early 1980s when it reported on the prevalence of toxic waste dumps in poor, black neighborhoods — has turned much of its attention to climate change.

Her first novel, Bonfire, a psychological thriller about an environmental lawyer who investigates toxic waste dumping in her Indiana hometown, will be published by Crown Archetype on November 7.

He said: «Food waste makes up a significant proportion of the household waste we throw out each week, with over 70 % of the food waste dumped in landfills coming from households.

Many could end up in waste dumps in poor communities in Asia and Africa and poison drinking water supplies.

They were the first to document the widespread abuse of electronic waste dumping in developing countries and created the e-Stewards program as corporate partnership program to promote responsibility in the e-waste management sector.

Not exact matches

But since Trump has been in office, the GOP has used the CRA more than a dozen times to roll back Obama - era rules and regulations, including one to protect broadband consumer privacy, one to curb bribery and corruption in the energy industry, and one to stop coal companies from dumping waste into streams and waterways.

The pollution judgment against Chevron issued in 2011 based on 105 technical evidentiary reports showing the oil major dumped billions of gallons of cancer - causing oil waste onto Indigenous ancestral lands.

As part of the mines continued operations the waste rock dump is to be expanded, resulting in the loss of 75.7 ha of habitat for three threatened species of Black Cockatoo.

If China was investing in better health care, more retirement facilities for their aging population, and cleaning up their air (putting scrubbers on all their power plans) and water (forcing firms to stopping dumping industrial waste in their rivers), and generally providing more consumption goods and services to their own workers, THAT would be a step forward.

In 2006, two years after Vedanta acquired the mine, the company dumped hazardous waste into the Kafue River, a major source of drinking water for the country, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 2,000 residents.

This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

Then, just when it seems as if things can't get any worse, there will be yet another idiot in a trench coat standing on the edge of a waste dump, a dying rain forest, or a refugee camp, pointing the Camera at yet another problem» and then walking away.

Such technological optimists seem to think that the economy is a flow in a single direction between two infinities; infinite resources on one side, and an infinite hole on the other side into which we can dump all our wastes.

This being said, animals raised on pastures in the vicinity of industrial waste dumping grounds are exposed to more heavy metals and pollutants.

I didn't want all that effort for a beautiful meal to go to complete waste, so I salvaged what I could of the food, dumped it into a smaller but definitely - oven - safe dish and stuck it back in to bake.

«Rather than dumping this waste, we convert sludge into compost, an essential element in revitalizing soil.

Do all food bloggers feel so sad about the ingredients that got wasted or do they become cold and hard - hearted after a couple of months of dumping their deformed, ruined, creations into the waste - bin along with that perfect idea that was envisioned exactly in its yummy baked / cooked glory!

With bag - in - box packaging, Beso Del Sol's sustainable container also eliminates a large amount of restaurant waste, to the tune of thousands of glass wine bottles no longer being dumped by delivering a delicious, ready - to - drink sangria right from the start.

a bozo of an offensive coordinator, a toxic waste dump of a program, and a spot in a middling bowl game.

Most famously, Capt. George Streeter waged a decades - long battle in the late 1800s over rights to what later became known as Streeterville — now valuable property on Chicago's Near North Side built out of construction waste dumped on a sandbar in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire.

Little did I know at the time, you are supposed to dispose of solid waste the same way for disposables as you must for cloth diapers; by dumping it in the toilet before washing or throwing the diapers away.

Rather than just flushing waste away, you remove the center container, dump the contents in the regular toilet, and clean the container.

City officials said a ruling Monday by a judge in U.S. District Court means the city and its Park District «are not generating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste, or dumping waste» by allowing the shooting.

If you think about it, disposable diapers cause environmental problems because the just sit in waste dumps until it gets taken care of.

Legally you are supposed to dump ALL waste in the toilet.

Ditto the previous posters who pointed out that ALL solid wastes found in ALL diapers should be dumped in the toilet.

We need better nutrition which actually gets eaten and not dumped in the waste bin.

In our country the situation has become dire because of the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste like plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

The former President said a report in the media that Ghana stood the risk of importing water by 2021 was a reality created by the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste such as plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

Six unauthorized dump sites were evacuated in the Accra Metropolis and in addition, the Ministry will acquire and develop material recovery sites such as waste transfer stations and final disposal sites in every region to ensure the sorting and temporary holding of solid waste prior to treatment at the waste processing plants.

In addition to permitted construction debris, household waste, which is not allowed at the site, has been observed inside and around the dump.

Last year lawyers representing Trafigura sought to prevent a question about its dumping of toxic waste off the Ivory Coast being asked in parliament.

(EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumped in New York.

«That's allowing waste to be dumped into rivers and streams and in the same month, she accepted the River Keeper Award out in the St. Lawrence,» Wilson said, referring to an award given by a nonprofit for the lawmaker's work to support Plan 2014, a plan to modify water levels on Lake Ontario.

Productive environmental regulations have been made, such as the ban on hydrofracking in 2015 — though data collected by the Environmental Advocates of New York (EANY) revealed that waste from other states is still being dumped in New York.

It is time to not only ban fracking, but halt new investments in fossil fuels and related infrastructure, including pipelines, gas - fired power plants, fracking waste dumps, fossil fuel storage depots in the salt caverns by Seneca Lake, LNG exports at Port Ambrose, crude oil «bomb trains,» and a tar sands oil heater at the Port of Albany.

Also worthy of commendation is the breakthrough recorded by the government in ridding Enugu metropolis of waste, especially at dump sites to ensure a clean environment, through the taskforce constituted to complement the efforts of the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA).

If this were the case, then those of us who live in less salubrious areas wouldn't have the municipal dump or waste incinerators on our doorsteps.