New research promises to remove harmful PCB toxins from soil in a safer and cheaper way than existing technology. "Soil cleanup — PCB soil cleanup — that's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it," ...

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.

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

The PCB cleanup along the Lower Fox River and bay of Green Bay took about 17 years, beginning in 2004 and continuing until ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are toxic manmade chemicals that persist in the environment despite being banned in 1979. Exposure to PCBs, often through eating contaminated fish, can damage ...

The public has until July 30 to provide input, ask questions and provide feedback for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s long-awaited PCB cleanup along Logan Martin Lake and its feeder streams ...

A contractor who worked at the largest PCB cleanup in history got cancer. Not once, but four times. Were safety measures ...

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 ...

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 ...