After years of analysis and debate, California regulators have adopted a nation-leading drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium, a carcinogen found in water supplies across the state. The dangers of the toxic heavy metal, also known as chromium-6, became widely known in the 1990s after a court case that then-legal clerk Erin Brockovich helped develop against Pacific Gas & Electric for contaminating water in the town of Hinkley in the Mojave Desert. The story of tainted water in that...
Baltimore fire crews pulled a person from the water Monday. SkyTeam 11
GONZALES - In a step to address infrastructure issues in Ascension Parish, the parish government has finalized the sale of its sewer assets and maintenance of those assets to National Water Infrastructure. The sale of the assets was voted on in April 2021 and was later sanctioned in July of that same year. Phase 1 of the transfer to NWI's maintenance of the system will see 3.5 million gallons of sewer discharge to be removed from the parish's waterways per day. Officials say the...
Andre Onana was guilty of another calamitous error which gifted Sheffield United a shock lead over Manchester United. Thankfully for the Red Devils goalkeeper, it didn’t prove to be decisive
The United Nations makes a mockery of human rights not just through its actions, but through the supposed human rights issues it chooses to focus on. Volker Turk is the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, an arrogant title for an arrogant organization that does far more harm than good to global human rights. […]
Atlanta United isn't learning lessons from last season, or even from its
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United Way of Bartholomew County has earned a national award for its use of a social services tool providing holistic financial and job coaching to struggling residents. Continue reading at The Republic News.
United Nations Member States are drafting a vision for the future of the internet through the Global Digital Compact. We can ensure that the Wikimedia projects are protected. United Nations (UN) Me
The United States used its veto on Thursday at the United Nations (UN) Security Council to block a Palestinian state from being declared unilaterally.
Like academia and so many other institutions, the UN has become a funhouse mirror - entirely unreliable and guilty of distorting the truth to comical levels.