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.

The report by Weston & Sampson, posted on the town website on Tuesday, recommends hydraulic dredging and transport of dewatered and treated PCB-tainted sediment from the Housatonic River between ...

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, ...

General Electric presented its new proposal this week for moving toxic waste from the Housatonic River to disposal sites in Lee, Massachusetts, and out of state. The public previously criticized the ...

What can studying dead hedgehogs tell us about the state of the environment? Quite a lot, it turns out, as researchers in Sweden have uncovered “surprising” results from their efforts. Taking samples ...

People who have been exposed to both PFAS and PCBs are more likely to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS). These new ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request from the Washington State Department of Ecology to set tighter limits for harmful chemicals used in manufacturing that find their way into ...

In the past, PCBs were utilized in a vast range of industrial and commercial products. These highly carcinogenic chemical compounds remain in our environment and accumulate inside organisms. Chiral ...

Toxins in the river continue to be a threat to people and the environment, and the federal agency's complacency is harming the integrity of the Superfund program. A sign warning people about eating ...

From Idu Jude, AbujaThe Federal Government of Nigeria says it is ready to decommission all national projects involving power plants to check the inherent health dangers associated with polychlorinated ...