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Schiff calls for faster pace in finding maximum chromium 6 levels in drinking water
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) took the California Department of Public Health to task Monday for “dragging its feet” on setting new limits on chromium 6 in drinking water, adding to a growing chorus of frustration among local officials.
In...Tags: Environmental Issues, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer, Adam Schiff
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Glendale Water & Power to test chromium 6 filtration method
Glendale Water & Power has started testing a new filtration method to strip chromium 6 from groundwater and plans to start the process for other techniques next month. Previous methods have had some drawbacks, prompting the fresh approaches....Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer
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Schiff legislation would set clock on new chromium-6 limits
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) today introduced legislation that would set a deadline for establishing a new federal cap on chromium 6 contamination in drinking water. The move comes two weeks after the congressman on the Environmental Protection Agency to...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Schiff turns up the heat on EPA to release chromium 6 report
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would set a deadline for establishing a new federal cap on chromium 6 contamination in drinking water. The move comes two weeks after the congressman called on the Environmental...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Chromium 6 cleanup slated for contaminated lot
Despite efforts to stop it, the chemical Chromium 6 has been seeping into Glendale groundwater for years at the site of a defunct plating company. By early next month, that will start to change. Ralphs Grocery Co. plans to finalize the purchase of the...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer
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Schiff pushes EPA to release information on chromium 6 contamination
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) increased pressure on the Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday to issue a long-awaited final report on the health impact of water tainted with chromium 6 on humans, calling the slow progress “unconscionable.”...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Medical Research, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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EPA digs into city's chromium 6 levels
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to install 30 wells in the Glendale-Burbank region in March to monitor levels of chromium 6 in underground water to get a fuller picture of how extensive the contamination is.
The move is another step in the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer
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Antonovich slams agencies for slow progress on chromium-6
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich today slammed public health officials for “pathetic bureaucratic inertia” in establishing new maximum allowed levels of chromium-6 in public drinking water.
The California Department of Public...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health
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City to throw more money at water contamination study
The costs keep piling up as a project to study chromium 6 removal becomes a bigger expense than expected for Glendale, which has been trudging through nine years of research to strip the cancer-causing contaminant from groundwater.
Although the City...Tags: Environmental Issues, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cancer, Research
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$550K dedicated to removing cancer agent from groundwater
Glendale Water & Power plans to spend another $550,000 on a research project for stripping cancer-causing chromium 6 from local groundwater that already has cost $7.8 million. City officials say they need to make the expenditure because the current...Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Water, Research, California Water Service Group
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EPA focuses on water clean-up
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials are interviewing Burbank and Glendale residents to get feedback on their ongoing efforts to clean up decades-old contaminated ground water. The confidential, 30-minute interviews were conducted this week and...Tags: Regional Authority, Environmental Politics, Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Interior Policy
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Contaminant levels in local water remain low
GLENDALE — Contaminant levels in the 8.4 billion gallons of water delivered to Glendale Water & Power customers last year remained relatively low, even as the utility continued to cope with ongoing chromium 6 remediation and changing reporting...Tags: Water Restrictions, Water Supply
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