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- Daily Gazette - Large buildings that will be used to receive, filter and stockpile river sediments contaminated by PCBs are going up on the sprawling site that was just a corn field in early 2007. “They are on schedule and things are going well,” said David King ...
- Worcester Telegram & Gazette - The advisory is based on elevated levels of various toxins, including mercury, PCBs, DDT, chlordane, pesticides and lead. Pesticides were developed to kill weeds and some insects. DDT is a powerful insecticide that is restricted by law. Chlordane is ...
- Tacoma News Tribune - The committee’s 2001 report concluded dredging would reduce the risks associated with PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, a toxic industrial chemical that taints the sediment. Next year, General Electric Corp., the responsible party, is scheduled ...
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - When burbot are tested in a lab, historically they test pretty clean of mercury and PCBs." Canada at one time tried to launch a commercial burbot fishery, for both the cod liver oil and the meat, but it never took off, Murray said. Jerry Mathers, the ...
- Poughkeepsie Journal - Federal regulators have approved a General Electric proposal that calls for dredging far less Hudson River sediment upstate than originally planned as the company cleans up toxic PCBs. Environmental Protection Agency officials overseeing the ...
- MSNBC - That can include up to 6 ounces of albacore or white tuna or tuna steak. There are other problems with eating raw fish. Other contaminants that accumulate in raw fish include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins, which some studies suggest ...
- Poughkeepsie Journal - The federal Environmental Protection Agency signed off on the company’s conclusion. The large-scale dredging is expected to begin in spring 2009. General Electric discharged polychlorinated biphenyls, an oil-like insulating material suspected as a ...
- Anniston Star - Updated 12:53 p.m. The Anniston City Council this morning received a report concerning its options for addressing contaminated soil in a local landfill, but declined to release the report or publicly discuss its conclusions. City leaders and Anniston ...
- TriVallyCentral - A short-list of proposals for projects to restore the recreational, riparian and aquatic damage done to the river by General Electric's release of PCB's(polychlorinated biphenyls) was released in December an. Tuesday's meeting gave the public an ...
- Food Consumer - The dirty dozen the world is working to get rid of are aldrin, hexachlorobenzene1,2,3, chlordane, mirex, DDT, toxaphene, dieldrin, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs)2,3, endrin, polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (dioxins), heptachlor, polychlorinated ...
- Environment News Service - POPs is a group of chemicals which includes many pesticides such as dieldrin, DDT, toxaphene and chlordane and several industrial chemical products or byproducts including polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, dioxins and furans. In their commentary ...
- Berkshire Eagle - LEE — General Electric and environmental regulators are expected to unveil a massive report detailing GE's proposed cleanup for the Housatonic River at a Lee meeting in March. The long-awaited document will be GE's proposed remedy for the PCB ...
- FOX News - Among the toxins Andrady mentions are long-time ecological nightmares such as PCBs and DDT. PCBs, which were completely banned in the 1970s, and DDT, which was mostly banned, keep showing up at alarming levels at all levels of oceanic food chains. But ...
- Buffalo News - That will put the night shift in the same health-risk category as exposure to such toxic chemicals as trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). “Electric lights are wonderful, but as with a lot of other things, we ...
- Slate - They also note that it's prudent to doubt a technique that's historically been used to get rid of chemical weapons, PCBs, and other nasty remnants of an earlier, less eco-conscious age. (At facilities that handle such dangerous materials, the syngas ...
- Sierra Star - Such things as cadmium, copper, mercury, arsenic, PCBs, nickel, zinc and lead leach out of all our handy gadgets when they're just tossed out. Because of the dangers from these elements, in California, it is illegal to throw e-waste, also called ...
- Green Bay Press-Gazette - The paper companies that were ordered to prepare the plan for the cleanup of the Fox River have told governmental officials that they expect to have a landfill contract completed in April for either the Holland landfill site in southern Brown County ...
- NewsTarget - Because they are so low on the food chain, mercury, PCBs and heavy metals contamination are not considered safety issues like they are in sourcing fish oils . Krill oil is a rich source of omega-3 fatty acids , eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and ...
- Clinton Daily Journal - CLINTON – Clinton Landfill owners were disappointed with a Dec. 19 vote taken by the Logan County Board to oppose the company’s application for a federal permit. The permit would allow the landfill to accept PCBs in concentrations higher than it ...
- Green Bay Press-Gazette - Environmental Protection Agency and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued an amended record of decision in June that included dredging and capping of PCBs. Brown County owns a landfill site in the town of Holland that will be the ...
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