Sentences with phrase «water pollution crisis»

As POLITICO New York reported in June, the Cuomo administration resisted sounding a public alarm over the water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls, even though federal regulators warned senior DOH officials that residents of the town should be alerted that they were drinking water that contained dangerous levels of PFOA, a chemical that has been linked to cancer and other serious health problems.

ALBANY — While the Cuomo administration has been extensively criticized for its slow reaction to the unfolding Hoosick Falls water pollution crisis, a new trove of emails and meeting notes shows how top state Department of Health officials actively dismissed the Obama administration's increasingly dire warnings and recommended safe consumption levels.

Cuomo called for more facts and less emotion as his administration continues to investigate a water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls.

But the unfolding water pollution crisis in Hoosick Falls has turned the administration's relationship with the EPA, and in particular with the Region 2 office headed by administrator Judith Enck, especially toxic.

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Scientists say the amounts of meat now eaten, and the ways livestock are raised, appear to exceed the carrying capacity of the planet, resulting in a significant contribution to climate change, water pollution, deforestation, and other environmental crises.

Even as the water crisis moves toward some form of resolution, the town is just beginning to grapple with the health effects of the PFOA pollution.

ALBANY — Wednesday's hearing on Hoosick Falls and water pollution issues turned into a five - hour grilling of state health commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker and other officials who organized the state's response to the crisis.

«Air and water pollution may be of concern to us, but to them it's becoming a public health crisis,» Cleetus said.

Because in spite of what's happening, we're happy to say that there is an inspiring will in Mexico to fight climate the climate crisis, reduce CO2 emissions, and keep Mexico City's eye - watering pollution in check.

Beyond the energy issue, water pollution and conservation is also becoming a crisis of similar proportions.

This crisis is compounded not only by many other environmental problems caused by industrialised agriculture — loss of biodiversity, pollution, over-use of water and land, to name but a few — but also by escalating health problems caused by industrialised food production — including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, some cancers, and diabetes — alongside continuing problems of hunger and malnutrition, worldwide.