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.

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 Lower Fox River PCB cleanup, one of the world's largest, took nearly two decades and cost $1.3 billion.

PCBs, outlawed before the start of the century, have been a problem since old mine transformers near Shaffer Equipment/Arbuckle Creek leaked into the soil.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LEE — When regulators decided not to press General Electric for a rail facility to load and unload tainted sediments within its planned PCB landfill, some asked: What does that mean for rail within ...

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 — ...

WESTMINSTER — The Bellows Falls Union High School board agreed Monday night to start the first PCB cleanup project at the high school, in hopes of reclaiming the use of the gymnasium later this year.