The long-overdue removal of PCBs from electrical equipment may soon become required by the EPA, and utility companies will have to foot the bill. When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) takes ...

More than 49,000 pounds of old electrical equipment and oil containing hazardous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have been flown out of Japan for a stateside destination, a U.S. Embassy ...

MINSK, 4 July (BelTA) – Belarus intends to phase out the equipment, which contains polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) by 2025, BelTA learned from the Belarusian Natural Resources and Environmental ...

EASTHAMPTON -- A recent rainstorm brought down a wooden utility pole with an old electrical transformer, releasing 15 gallons of PCB-laden oil near the Connecticut River oxbow. Eversource reported the ...

The government has decided to ban manufacturing, import and export of polychlorinated biphensyls (PCBs) and also equipment containing this toxic chemical. PCBs are among the 22 persistent organic ...

The government has warned the public against applying transformer oil or any other electrical equipment oil to the body or using it for non-industrial purposes, citing serious health and environmental ...

The BC Hydro project to phase-out equipment containing high levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) found the toxic chemical in assets that had previously been deemed PCB-free. “Several shunt ...

Toxic synthetic chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were banned more than 40 years ago but still threaten human health and the environment today. PCBs were used to make industrial ...