Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unfortunately, banned isn’t the same as gone, which is where scientists like me come in. PCBs remain in the environment to this ...

For more than 30 years, Ward Transformer, a Superfund site on 11 acres near Interstate 540 and the Raleigh-Durham Airport, has bled PCBs into dirt and ditch, woods and stream. The hazardous ...

A recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation revealed lax safety standards at the Fox River PCB cleanup site – the ...

On the Friday, June 12, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were built to last. So, beginning in the late 1920's billions of pounds of it were produced across the ...

EPA is proposing to promulgate new methods and update the regulatory tables of approved methods for pollutant analysis under the Clean Water Act specified in 40 CFR Part 136. The proposed rule affects ...

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started an assessment of and cleanup of material from the former Morton Avenue Warehouse at 119 North Morton Avenue in ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a class of fire-resistant industrial chemicals, were widely used in electrical transformers, oils, paints and even building materials throughout the 20th century.