LEE — Rail transport of toxic PCB material excavated from the Housatonic River cleanup has not been ruled out. That’s the word from the Environmental Protection Agency, just days before General ...

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, ...

General Electric presented its new proposal this week for moving toxic waste from the Housatonic River to disposal sites in Lee, Massachusetts, and out of state. The public previously criticized the ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WSET) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced Tuesday that he and his team has secured an $80 million settlement agreement with Monsanto Co. This settlement addresses the ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and General Electric are taking steps to design a facility to dispose of PCBs in Lee, Massachusetts. It's part of the cleanup of the Housatonic River.

For six weeks in 1982, activists and residents, such as then-15-year-old Consherto Williams (right), gathered in Warren County, near the town of Afton, to protest the delivery of 40,000 cubic tons of ...