Just under a year ago, the Vermont House Education Committee approved legislation that would have paused the state’s ambitious and logistically complex school testing program for toxic chemicals known ...

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NC State University closed Poe Hall, home of the College of Education and Department of Psychology, in November 2023 after tests detected toxic chemicals. The university and federal health officials ...

WESTMINSTER — Starting next week, special testing on the PCB-contaminated structural steel columns at Bellows Falls Union High School could determine how and whether the high school building can be ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont lawmakers Monday fast-tracked $2.5 million in funding to deal with PCBs in schools, part of the state’s first-in-the-nation effort to identify and remediate the toxic ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Vermont health officials Thursday outlined to lawmakers what the options are for the hundreds of schools in the state that will be tested for PCB contamination in the coming ...

As test targets shrink, the benefits of socketless probing technology grow. As technology advances, more and more electronic components that do bigger and better things are hitting the market. At the ...

Testing by West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) shows PCB contamination at the Shaffer Equipment Co. site and at other locations in Minden, a WVDEP official said. Of 20 soil ...