Some 31,000 cubic yards of soil contaminated with cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, and other heavy metals at ...

Decades of contamination with mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls will soon be cleaned up on several adjacent Superfund ...

North Carolina State University filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against chemical manufacturing giant Monsanto, alleging the company failed to warn the university of the dangers of PCBs, which were used ...

PELL CITY — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service held the second of two public hearings concerning PCB contamination found in Calhoun and Talladega counties, as well as in Logan Martin Lake Friday. “We ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to analyze samples from local rivers to see how much contamination is ...

NC State University announced Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, the chemical giant, over the presence of toxic chemicals discovered in Poe Hall nearly two years ago.

HARTFORD — This school district faces extensive and costly remediation of several areas of the high school and career and technical center due to elevated levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, commonly ...

The university alleges that chemical company Monsanto made the PCBs used in building materials to construct Poe Hall in 1971.

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.

Some 31,000 cubic yards of soil contaminated with cancer-causing polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, and other heavy metals have ...