SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. >> Plans call for taking 400 Hudson River floodplain samples to determine if potentially harmful levels of PCBs exist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials said Thursday.

North Carolina State University on Thursday released the first report of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) test results from Poe Hall. The university contracted Geosyntec Consultants to do an ...

The Washington State Supreme Court agreed with the Department of Ecology in a dispute over whether Ecology should have followed notice and comment rulemaking procedures when adding two new ...

NC State University closed Poe Hall, home of the College of Education and Department of Psychology, in November 2023 after tests detected toxic chemicals. The university and federal health officials ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - A bill that would put a pause on Vermont’s PCB school testing program has advanced to the state Senate. The House Thursday voted to pass H.486, which endeavors to halt the PCB ...

FORT EDWARD – Technicians will pull 30,000 samples of sediment from the bottom of the Hudson River in the most detailed testing project undertaken in more than two decades of PCB studies on the river.

PROCTOR, Vt. (WCAX) - All eyes are on Vermont as the state embarks on a first-in-the-nation program to rid school buildings statewide of PCBs. Triggered by the discovery of the toxic chemical at the ...

OTSEGO, MI — Scientists were trudging across the muddy ground around Pine Creek Wednesday, sampling soils from what by next week will be lake bottom again. "They’ll be looking for mostly PCBs ...

After years of legal sparring over toxic chemicals in local waterways, Illinois has locked in a $120 million settlement with ...