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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Ramotowski, University of Iowa (THE CONVERSATION) Polychlorinated biphenyls, or ...

LEE — Rail transport of toxic PCB material excavated from the Housatonic River cleanup has not been ruled out. That’s the word from the Environmental Protection Agency, just days before General ...

A federal cleanup of the Hudson River is not meeting its targets for reducing toxic chemicals in the waterway, environmental advocates say. The criticism from a coalition of environmental groups this ...

After dangerous levels of PCBs were discovered from west Anniston and further into the county in the late 1990s, a cleanup plan was put into action. The most concerning concentrations of PCBs — that ...

LEE — Undaunted by regulatory and court decisions, Lee residents are taking their call for a different PCB cleanup than the one proposed so far — one that doesn’t involve a landfill in their town — ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Unfortunately, banned isn’t the same as gone, which is where scientists like me come ...