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 ...

LENOX — A national engineering firm specializing in PCB cleanup projects will host a public open house at Town Hall on Tuesday evening to answer questions about the EPA-GE Rest of River cleanup plan.

Researchers on a deep-sea expedition have found PCB in sediment samples from the more than 8,000-meter-deep Atacama Trench in the Pacific Ocean. PCB has been banned in most countries since the 1970s, ...

Insights from decades of intense scrutiny of dioxins and PCBs in the environment, beginning in the 1960s, remain pertinent to our current challenges with PFAS. The lessons learned regarding detection ...

The European Commission presented on 25 October a strategy to reduce dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment, animal feed and the food chain. The new proposal was produced ...

On October 22, 2021, EPA published a proposed rule that would, if adopted, provide a significantly enhanced additional pathway for remediation of sites impacted by polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and General Electric are taking steps to design a facility to dispose of PCBs in Lee, Massachusetts. It's part of the cleanup of the Housatonic River.

For six weeks in 1982, activists and residents, such as then-15-year-old Consherto Williams (right), gathered in Warren County, near the town of Afton, to protest the delivery of 40,000 cubic tons of ...

PCB has been banned in most countries since the 1970s, but that doesn't mean it no longer exists. Now, deep-sea researchers report that they have found PCB at the bottom of the Atacama Trench in the ...