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.

The PCB cleanup along the Lower Fox River and bay of Green Bay took about 17 years, beginning in 2004 and continuing until ...

New research promises to remove harmful PCB toxins from soil in a safer and cheaper way than existing technology. "Soil cleanup — PCB soil cleanup — that's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it," ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are toxic manmade chemicals that persist in the environment despite being banned in 1979. Exposure to PCBs, often through eating contaminated fish, can damage ...

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 ...

A recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation revealed lax safety standards at the Fox River PCB cleanup site – the largest in the world.

On the Friday, June 12, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, were built to last. So, beginning in the late 1920’s billions of pounds of it were produced across the ...

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 ...

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 ...