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2005 saw over 250 screenings, including the world premiere of six AFFIF funded titles, including Look Both Ways a feature film directed by Sarah Watt, the interactive web series UsMob.com.au filmed in the Hidden Valley town camp outside Alice Springs in Arrernte country and the new rescore to Fritz Lang's Metropolis by The New Pollutants (Benjamin Speed and Tyson Hopprich)
In 2005, Allegheny Ludlum agreed to pay a US$2,375,000 penalty to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, which alleged that Ludlum had unlawfully discharged oil and other pollutants, such as chromium, zinc, copper, and nickel, into the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.
For example, he has long railed against the use of MTBE, a chemical industry waste product added to gasoline with the purported aim of minimizing pollutants from automobiles.
Industrial pollutants such as hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and perfluorocarbons (PFCs) have a GWP many thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide by volume.
The primary reason was loss of habitat: drainage of wetlands and siltation resulted in higher concentrations of pollutants, causing (eutrophication) across Lake Tota.
On April 21, 1999, a federal grand jury charged Chemetco Inc., Feron, and five of his employees with violating the United States Clean Water Act for using an illegal secret discharge pipe to deliberately pump hazardous waste water contaminated with various pollutants and industrial waste including cadmium, lead and zinc into Long Lake (Illinois), a tributary of the Mississippi River.
In a separate toxicological analysis of Dillo Dirt, levels of the following pollutants were found: Beta-BHC, DDE, Dieldrin, Endrin aldehyde, Benzo
Marine top predators like porpoises and seals accumulate pollutants such as heavy metals, PCBs and pesticides in their fat tissue.
According to PAGASA, the presence of pollutants over the metropolis which penetrates the reddish appearance of the Moon during the greatest stages of the eclipse and sunlight attracts into the atmosphere in the form of red light in contrast to July 1953 and July 2000 lunar eclipses with the same coloration.
The mill dumped thousands of tons of pollutants into the lake, including dioxin, which has appeared in Baikal fish and the fat of Baikal seals.
In 2004 The New Pollutants composed and produced the new soundtrack and premiered it live at the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival.
Hurricane Katrina impacted the local area, washing pollutants and salt water into the river.
In 2013, the 9th meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, established under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants proposed di-,tri-,tetra-,penta-,hexa-, hepta- and octa-chlorinated napthalenes, for listing in Annexes A and C to that Convention.
Research is concentrated in five Research Focus Areas: "Nanostructured Materials," "Sustainable Built Environment," "Materials for Health and Performance," "Natural Resources and Pollutants," and "Materials for Energy Technologies."
Demolition can have major environmental impacts as it can pollute the soil, increase air pollutants, and increase water consumption.
Many crustaceans like crabs (Scylla spp., Portunus spp.), spiny lobsters (Panulirus spp.), crayfish (Astacus spp., Cherax spp.) and freshwater shrimp (Macrobrachium spp.) are reported to be infected with variable severities depending on the life stage of the host and presence of external stressors (temperature, salinity, bacterial diseases, pollutants).