Sentences with phrase «with tainted water»

Some in town fret that Hoosick Falls will always be the place that a Google search associates with its tainted water.

Mix that formula with tainted water (found in 28 states) and baby gets a double dose of perchlorate which is known to interfere with the thyroid hormones essential for brain development.

Not exact matches

But perusing newspapers from towns where fracking is going on reveals how the issue refuses to die, with headlines like «Fears of Tainted Water Well Up in Colorado,» «Collateral Damage: Residents Fear Murky Effects of Energy Boom,» and «Worker Believes Cancer Caused by Fracking Fluids» appearing regularly.

Public bathrooms are terrible places to pump for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is because a toilet sprays an aerosol «plume» of microscopic water droplets tainted with urine and fecal matter whenever it is flushed, and nobody wants any of that getting near breastmilk.

The panel's work included examining the levels of PFOA in the blood of those who consumed the contaminated water or were exposed to PFOA in other ways, and also researching their health issues in connection with how much tainted water they may have consumed over time.

The House Oversight Committee sent a letter claiming the administration knew Hoosick Falls» water was tainted with a toxin used to make Teflon but failed to alert residents for a year.

The Hoosic River runs through the village, which has become the epicenter of a public health crisis after researchers discovered that the public water supply was tainted with high levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, which is used to make Teflon.

Petersburgh has had private and public water supplies tainted with PFOA, a chemical used in manufacturing insulating and non-stick materials.

ALBANY — Officials in the state Department of Health were aware of concerns that the water in the upstate village of Petersburgh could be tainted with a toxic chemical in late 2014, but did not take action to protect residents until a few days ago, according to emails obtained by POLITICO New York.

«I saw a whole new side of him with the water crisis, the tainted water here in Newburgh and Hoosick Falls.

ALBANY — The company suspected of tainting Hoosick Falls» drinking water supply with toxic chemicals should immediately disclose the full extent of the pollution it caused, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Monday.

The median number, 23 parts per billion, may be skewed by the inclusion of town residents with private wells who did not drink the town's tainted water.

Politico New Yorkreported last week that documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that the governor's health commissioner and others knew for a full 18 months that the water was tainted with PFOA, a chemical linked to cancer.

Politico New York reported last week that documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that the governor's health commissioner and others knew for a full 18 months that the water was tainted with PFOA, a chemical linked to cancer.

The Rensselaer County village of Hoosick Falls, which has been grappling with a chemically - tainted water supply, can now begin flushing contaminated water lines after the installation of a temporary filtration system.

Cooling towers at nuclear sites or chemical plants can release water droplets tainted with toxins, which the wind carries away.

Reproductions of maps of the Dakotas from 1886 may remind visitors of ongoing controversies with the Dakota Access Pipeline, proposed to run near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and maps from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mark sites in Flint, Mich., with lead - tainted water.

The Fukushima plant is crowded with 10 - meter - tall tanks storing tainted water used to cool melted nuclear fuel masses and groundwater that infiltrated the site — some 750,000 tons in all.

When Flint, Mich., started using its own river as a water supply, the city's drinking water became tainted with lead.

Charon, with its weaker gravity, has lost the substances that can turn to vapour and escape more easily, and is mostly water - ice tainted by ammonia.

The water, fish and people were tainted with toxic chemicals.

They placed the cloak in a tank of water tainted with enough white paint to make light diffuse through it more slowly than through the polymer.

Changing climate patterns are threatening lakes and rivers, and key sources that we tap for drinking water are being overdrawn or tainted with pollution.

Hide caption Mike and Nancy Leighton live in Leroy Township, Pa., where residents have been dealing with flammable gas puddles and tainted well water.

wouldn't there be chemical taint from industrial manufacturing and made with city water.

Bottled water, which is often tainted with chemicals, is becoming a less popular option due to the waste generated by the plastic containers.

And the father drank some water from a spring tainted by a fallen meteor, and now he can move objects with his mind.

Tensions in the board room are at an all - time high, especially with back room deals and bribery tainting the water.

An idealist, she had once dreamed of representing victims of corporate abuse, but she spends her days in a cubicle talking on the phone with victims of tainted bottled water - and she is on the bottler's side.

«Didn't they have problems with tainted well water?»

• Water was tainted with feces, and pens were too small for dogs and cats to turn around or stand up in.

The tank can start to leak, the water can go out of balance, the new water might not be the right temperature or be tainted with chemicals.

The Greenlight community offers a relief to the mass pile of tainted water with many anticipated titles that offer delightfully obscure concepts combined with simple yet creative gameplay.

As I wrote a few months ago, 2.6 billion people face this problem every day, and more than 1.5 million people, mainly children, die prematurely from exposure to water tainted with human waste.

I had a particularly fascinating time interviewing Richard Wilson, a professor emeritus of physics at Harvard who has lately been studying risks associated with everything from nuclear power to Bangladesh's arsenic - tainted water supply.

Our wastewater systems combine stormwater, greywater, and even clean water (such as when we inadvertently let potable water run right down the drain without using it for some purpose) with the sewage from our toilets, when we could actually design and implement systems that would segregate the slightly tainted water (greywater and stormwater) from that which comes from toilets.

The voices of the thousands of Appalachians living with contaminated drinking water have finally been amplified over the past several days with a long - overdue announcement about halting mountaintop removal permits from the EPA and a widely - discussed New York Times story on Sunday about the devastating effects of coal - tainted water.

Gold mining is an industry fraught with environmental peril, however - tainting of water resources, and the use of cyanide and mercury to extract gold from crushed ore are two of the worst offenses.

«In factories on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Stephan Kohler of the Graz University of Technology in Austria and a team of researchers have cleansed water tainted with toxic metals like cadmium, zinc, lead and iron.»

Our tap drinking water continues to be tainted with chlorine, the same stuff we put into our swimming pools to kill every bug and algae that may come in contact with it.

Tarry, tarry pipe Taints our water black and grey, Leaks out on a summer day, With tars that show their darkness in the soil.

Toxic exposure to benzene normally occurs through inhalation of tainted air (in areas with high car traffic) or through water contamination.

The firm also gets the nod in highly contentious matters, with Ontario's attorney general having retained senior partner Brian Brock to manage insurance claims flowing from the Walkerton, Ont., tainted water scandal.

Its camera needs improvement, Huawei's software still taints the Android experience (even if it is improving with each new iteration of EMUI), while the presence of Honor muddies the water in this mid-level arena.