What makes ordinary rain falling in the Delaware River toxic enough to violate Environmental Protection Agency rules? And how can the EPA allow recycling plants to use old newspapers contaminated with ...

WESTMINSTER — The Bellows Falls Union High School Board has agreed on a strategy to address the remaining PCB problems at the high school. And the board made clear Monday night, it expects state ...

North Country Union High School was built when Lyndon B. Johnson was president. Its 55-year-old windows and doors need to be replaced, according to a facilities assessment completed last year. The ...

A hallway in Wing B of North Country Union High School during PCB testing Credit: File: Don Whipple Students at North Country Union High School in Newport will start the year late and temporarily ...

Cleaning up the dangerous chemicals, commonly known as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), inside the Westport Middle School has already cost more than $3 million. And paying the bill could put teachers ...

WESTMINSTER — This spring's hot weather has made PCB readings spike at Bellows Falls Union High School's gym, casting in doubt whether the gym will be able to be used when school reopens next month, ...

PCBs are resilient; their legacy is permanency. Thirty years after their ban, these hardy chemical compounds persist in our lakes, our rivers, our bodies, and a broad diversity of animals and plants.

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A major settlement announced this week brought an end to a lengthy battle between chemical manufacturer Monsanto and students, parents and staff of a Monroe school who were exposed to toxic PCBs for ...

(Bloomberg) -- Bayer AG agreed to settle cases related to a Seattle-area school where more than 200 people were exposed to toxic chemicals made by the company’s Monsanto unit. Bayer didn’t disclose ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers clearing the way last summer for a new West Parish Water Treatment Plant found soil contaminated by PCBs, a discovery that ...

University of Iowa Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Keri Hornbuckle works Jan. 17 with one of her graduate researchers, Jason Hua, at the Seamans Center in Iowa City. Hornbuckle, who also ...