Tap into Home Water Quality Did you know that 86% of single-serve drinking water bottles (almost 7,000 tons daily) do not get recycled and end up in landfills or incinerators?(1) As part of the "go green" effort, consumers countrywide are being encouraged to part with single-serve bottled water and...
MCLEAN, Va. -- "Except for inhalation exposures that may have occurred on 9/11, and a few days afterward, the ambient air concentration data suggest that persons in the general population were unlikely to suffer short-term or long-term adverse health effects caused by inhalation exposures," scientists at the U.S. Environmental Protection...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has decided to investigate the impacts of two water contaminants – perchlorate and MTBE – on human health. Most of the perchlorate manufactured in the United States is used as the primary ingredient...
Residues of birth control pills, antidepressants, painkillers, shampoos and a host of other compounds are finding their way into the nation's waterways, and they have public health and environmental officials in a regulatory quandary. On the one hand, there is no evidence the traces of the chemicals found...
Water: The EPA will monitor roughly 4,000 public water systems between January 2008 and December 2010 for up to 25 unregulated chemicals in the second cycle of its Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule UCMR. Currently, the EPA has regulations for over 90 contaminants. The Safe Drinking Water Act requires the EPA...
HILL AIR FORCE BASE -- For decades, certain chemicals used at Hill Air Force Base were thrown out the back door or dumped in disposal trenches. That was back when cars were built without seat belts and ran on leaded gasoline, and people smoked menthol cigarettes to freshen...
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico ENS — --> Contaminant warning systems that monitor municipal drinking water systems in real time are the latest direct result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC. No monitoring system is yet in place, but software that can show when and where a...
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico ENS — --> Contaminant warning systems that monitor municipal drinking water systems in real time are the latest direct result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC. No monitoring system is yet in place but software that can show when and where a...
The city health advisory on recreational activities on the Schuylkill has been lifted, the 148th Schuylkill Navy Regatta is back on schedule, and the intake at one of two city water plants on the river has been reopened. However, as of yesterday, officials still had not pinpointed the substance...
The city health advisory on recreational activities on the Schuylkill River was lifted at 3 p.m. today, city and state officials said at news conference. The advisory, however, remains for the Wissahickon Creek, where people are still being cautioned against swimming, wading and boating. Officials said this is a...
ABSTRACT A historical contaminant impact assessment was conducted at 48 heavy manufacturing facilities located in 20 different states for a U.S.-based company. The facilities evaluated were industrial manufacturing sites that operated for as long as 100 yr and used several types...
A decade ago, researchers doubted the existence of sick building syndrome, or SBS. That has changed. Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA recognizes the syndrome and offers a fact sheet defining both SBS and something called building-related illness, or BRI. "It isn't just anecdotal anymore,"...
Superfund is a term used for the monies available to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to clean up abandoned or inactive hazardous waste sites. Such sites may involve soil and/or groundwater contamination, and are often contaminated with heavy metals, such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and zinc; pesticides,...
Leaking underground storage tanks LUSTs containing hazardous liquids, primarily petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, kerosene, or oil have contaminated the groundwater and drinking water of thousands of communities across the United States. Following the boom in automobile sales after World War II, gasoline stations mushroomed across the county...
Twenty-six unregulated contaminants will be monitored by U.S. drinking water suppliers under a new rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This second cycle of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 2) also proposes the use of nine analytical methods to detect the contaminants. ...
Advisories about contaminants in fish are at odds with dietary guidelines calling for increased fish consumption. Do the rewards still outweigh the risks?One week we read that eating oily fish produces health benefits ranging from a decreased risk of cardiovascular disease to lowered incidence of depression. The very next week...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Twenty-six unregulated contaminants will be monitored by many U.S. drinking water suppliers under a new rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency. This second cycle of the Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 2) also proposes the use of nine analytical methods to detect...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Twenty-six unregulated contaminants will be monitored by U.S. drinking water suppliers under a new rule proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA. Costs for the five-year program will total approximately $42.1 million. The EPA will conduct and pay for the monitoring for those...
If you're worried about air pollution in your home or office, you're right to be very concerned. If you're not worried about airborne contaminants that are commonly found indoors, you should be. Genesis Air has come up with a new and innovative approach to eradicating much of the pollution...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> Adenoviruses most commonly cause respiratory illness, but they may also cause various other illnesses, such as gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis, cystitis, and skin rashes. As a group of organisms, adenoviruses are one of the 51 candidate contaminants that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA is considering...
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