Sentences with phrase «waste dumped»

According to EPA, state testing of the waste dumped at the site found lead levels three to four times higher than the Illinois standard allowed.

It is very likely that Fukushima was and remains a cover - story for the real source of radioactive poisoning in the Pacific — and that is the unchecked and massive amount of nuclear waste dumped there by the US Navy.

It is not toxic waste dumped into a river.

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.

Bacteria could not only thrive on nuclear waste dumped underground, but may immobilise it and make it safer.

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.

Life Cycles of the Seas» exhibit; and the eye - opening «Sea Debris: Awareness through Art,» which reveals the amount of waste dumped into our oceans every year and the impact it has on our coast's ecosystems.

According to experts, the possible cause of this mass mortality could be poisoning from chemical waste dumped into the bay from the drains.

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.

The study also considered an estimate of the waste dumps which was performed using the Inverse distance squared method.

We need waste dumps just as we need prisons and halfway houses.

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.

just look at the toxic waste dump that was bought by one of his contributors.

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

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

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

(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.

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.

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.

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

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.

State Department of Environmental Conservation Police are examining a wooded area off a service road on NY 22 (River Street) in the Town of Hoosick in response to a tip about possible illegal commercial waste dumping.

Global trading business Trafigura's settlement over allegations of toxic waste dumping is a major blow to the company's reputation.

State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill, in an email to news media, said Friday that «we must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump.»

«We must be vigilant to assure that the facility does not transition from an operating power plant to a dormant nuclear waste dump,» Cahill, a Democrat who represents Dutchess and Ulster counties, said in a statement.

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.

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...

It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.

Oftentimes residents will protest toxic waste dumps and other health threats only within their state borders, feeling immune to identical risks that are in neighboring states but even closer by.

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.

(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.

Regulators failed to collect air samples in the week following a radiation release at a New Mexico nuclear waste dump because of a vacancy in the office responsible for monitoring the site

But permitting a dump site for Class B and Class C material is almost as difficult as siting a high - level waste dump.

Rather than articulating the need to phase out technologies that use that atmosphere as a waste dump, the PCAST report recommends the expansion of a natural gas industry whose existence depends on us allowing them to pollute our skies.

Both candidates oppose Yucca Mountain, the controversial proposed nuclear waste dump.

Even more silting, the researchers point out, was caused by the practice of using the harbor as a huge waste dump.

On the downside, their spread also makes a big contribution to electronic waste dumps often found in developing countries.

«To save coral reefs, we need to transform our energy system into one that does not use the atmosphere and oceans as waste dumps for carbon dioxide pollution.

THE latrines and waste dumps of ancient Crete may have served as a source of agricultural fertiliser, according to a new chemical analysis.

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.

We hope to find out what type of skewed immune response the typical autistic child has and to isolate toxic exposures, such as proximity to highways or toxic waste dumps.»

The P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Moscow proposes to study ocean rift zones, subduction zones, and the sites of nuclear and toxic waste dumps.

On the northeast coast there is talk of using coal wastes, and of chemically treating the millions of old tyres littering waste dumps and sinking them in «concrete boots».

The proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump site in Nevada gets a $ 120 million reboot on licensing for the project in the White House's 2018 budget blueprint for the U.S. Department of Energy.

The new president approved $ 120 million to resume licensing Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste dump, but researchers at the energy department have other plans

, global transportation infrastructure, the effects of sea level rise on sea level toxic waste dumps (there are many) and the posited future of the further industrialization of China and India, which is to be largely (80 % by some estimates) to be coal powered.

«Substantial reductions in emissions are possible for both the U.S. and the rest of the world, but it will take herculean efforts and transforming the global energy system into one that does not use the sky as a waste dump,» Caldeira said.

The world's only deep underground nuclear waste dump is in New Mexico, and efforts of many New Mexicans to prevent high - level waste disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) have had an effect on the state's decisions (page 5).

The fiery creature is an extremophile, an organism that thrives in extreme environments, such as toxic waste dumps and hot springs.

These organisms thrive where other microbes don't dare venture: boiling water holes, freezing lakes, and toxic waste dumps.