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, ...

When foreign hazardous substances enter the marine environment, they are assimilated into the first link in the food chain, phytoplankton. The phytoplankton is consumed by zooplankton, which in turn ...

Insights from decades of intense scrutiny of dioxins and PCBs in the environment, beginning in the 1960s, remain pertinent to our current challenges with PFAS. The lessons learned regarding detection ...

The European Commission presented on 25 October a strategy to reduce dioxins and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the environment, animal feed and the food chain. The new proposal was produced ...

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 ...

On October 22, 2021, EPA published a proposed rule that would, if adopted, provide a significantly enhanced additional pathway for remediation of sites impacted by polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs.

I hated my high school chemistry class. Ironically, as my college and professional careers rolled along, I realized many environmental issues had chemistry connections. Like it or not, if I was to ...