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...Consumption has risen, with wastewater analysis showing cities in Belgium and the Netherlands among those with the highest concentrations....
...Thierry Breton, the French commissioner had described the landscape as the wild, wild west, where these companies, you know, became just too big to care....
...But she called for “science-based” responses, such as surveillance of wastewater from airports, and said ministers should ensure they scaled up their gene-sequencing programmes to detect any new variants...
...There should also be monitoring of the wastewater from aircraft, genomic surveillance at airports and increased monitoring and sequencing....
...“For every one case of paralytic polio identified, hundreds more may be undetected,” said Mary Bassett, New York’s State Health Commissioner....
...“This is not a religious issue,” says Dr Patricia Ruppert, Rockland’s health commissioner....
...The wastewater regulations are part of a broader hardening of existing EU directives on air and water pollution that should cut permitted levels of dangerous airborne matter such as PM2.5, particle matter...
...All I can say is that, after the archbishop opened the vast wooden door of Lambeth Palace, I walked past the magnolia trees in the garden and felt unexpectedly moved....
...Dr Scott Gottlieb, the FDA commissioner at the time, said they had the potential to play “a unique and important role in tackling the opioid crisis”....
...“Early warnings from wastewater analysis about rising cocaine availability are now supported by other data suggesting growing supply, including increases in purity and in the number and quantity of cocaine...
...“In the long term it will prove positive, because we will have to focus more on our own recycling capacity,” says Karmenu Vella, European commissioner for the environment....
...But while she cannot be a heavy lifter out on the street, she certainly carries weight in the office: Ms Garcia is commissioner of the world’s largest sanitation department....
...Dana Murphy, an OCC commissioner, says she is harangued by the industry for being too aggressive — and by residents for being too timid....
...Senator Brian Bingman, its Republican sponsor, says: “Asking five or ten city councillors or commissioners to ban the drilling — I’m not sure that’s speaking for all the people of the community.”...
...During the war, Gaza’s wastewater facility and lagoons were partially damaged by Israeli bombing....
...“We believe it is still the case that all the regions should be covered by regional policy,” says Johannes Hahn, who as regional policy commissioner oversees the bulk of the funds....
...Magnolias have a history of more than 95m years. They evolved before bees appeared, relying on beetles to pollinate them....
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