LENOX — A national engineering firm specializing in PCB cleanup projects will host a public open house at Town Hall on Tuesday evening to answer questions about the EPA-GE Rest of River cleanup plan.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied a request from the Washington State Department of Ecology to set tighter limits for harmful chemicals used in manufacturing that find their way into ...

Toxins in the river continue to be a threat to people and the environment, and the federal agency's complacency is harming the integrity of the Superfund program. A sign warning people about eating ...

In the past, PCBs were utilized in a vast range of industrial and commercial products. These highly carcinogenic chemical compounds remain in our environment and accumulate inside organisms. Chiral ...

The lawsuit alleged Monsanto knowingly concealed the dangers of the synthetic chemical and continued to produce and ...

Chemicals banned since 1979 have been the focus of lawsuits, including one brought by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul.

Illinois and West Virginia have settled with Bayer unit Monsanto over claims the company knowingly contaminated the states’ ...