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EPA tells schools to test aging caulk for PCBs
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hundreds of school buildings across the United States have caulk around windows and doors containing potentially cancer-causing PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency says.
Researchers identify how PCBs may alter in utero, neonatal brain development
Apr 14, 2009 |
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In three new studies — including one appearing online today in the Public Library of Science - Biology (PLoS - Biology) — UC Davis researchers provide compelling evidence of how low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls (PC ...
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New research finds some wood floor finishes are a likely source of PCB exposure
Jan 17, 2008 |
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A case study to be published in the online open access journal Environmental Health suggests that old wood floor finishes in some homes may be an overlooked source of exposure to the now banned environmental pollutants polych ...
Environmental pollutant has sex-skewing effect
Jul 15, 2008 |
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Women exposed to high levels of PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls – a group of banned environmental pollutants) are less likely to give birth to male children. A study published today in BioMed Central's open access journal ...
Tons of PCBs Reaching the Deep Oceans
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Toxic chemicals that have been released into the environment have turned up in some rather unexpected places. And while it has long been known that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and other persistent organic pollutants ...
PCBs may threaten killer whale populations for 30-60 years
Sep 10, 2007 |
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Orcas or killer whales may continue to suffer the effects of contamination with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) for the next 30 – 60 years, despite 1970s-era regulations that have reduced overall PCB concentrations ...
Scientists analyze Hurricane Ike's effects on waterways, fish contamination
Jul 07, 2009 |
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A long-term environmental research project being conducted at the University of Houston may offer important information about the effects of Hurricane Ike on pollution levels and help regulators determine whether existing ...
Researchers find potentially toxic substance present in Chicago air
Sep 29, 2008 |
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Although the industrial compounds known as polychlorinated biphenols or PCBs have been found in previous air samples collected in the city of Chicago, a University of Iowa researcher says that a new study of Chicago air sampled ...
Critics: Burial site for Hudson PCBs is inadequate
Jun 22, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Later this month, the first trainloads of PCB-tainted sludge dredged from the Hudson River will arrive and, in the eyes of critics, will turn a stretch of West Texas into New York's "pay toilet."
Phase 1 of PCB removal on Hudson wrapping up
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Crews dredging a polluted stretch of the upper Hudson River this year battled high water, old logging debris and unexpected levels of PCB contamination that slowed progress.
Bacteria That Degrade PCBs Identified
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Mar 28, 2007 |
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Researchers have identified a group of bacteria that can detoxify a common type of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), which have contaminated more than 250 U.S. sites, including river and lake sediments.
Cleanup method uses activated carbons to anchor toxins to bottom of the bay
Nov 28, 2007 |
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Imagine a Brita filter big enough to clean up San Francisco Bay. Richard Luthy, chair of Stanford's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has a plan to clean polluted sediment at Hunters Point ...
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