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(Reuters) -A Washington jury on Tuesday ordered Bayer to pay $100 million to four people who say they were sickened by toxic chemicals known as PCBs at a Seattle-area school, but found the company ...
In June 2020, State Impact of Pennsylvania stated that "In 1979, the EPA banned the use of PCBs, but they still exist in some products produced before 1979. They persist in the environment because they bind to sediments and soils. High exposure to PCBs can cause birth defects, developmental delays, and liver changes." [10]
Access to a classroom and lab building at NC State University will be limited beginning Friday afternoon, and classes held there will be moved online or to other buildings after testing showed the ...
The complaint form attached to NCDOL’s letter to NC State stated that Poe Hall employees “have not been informed of the presence, location and quantity of asbestos-containing materials ...
The ban did not require electrical utilities, for example, to remove 10 year old transformers with a useful life of 50 years from power poles. Many older transformers and other large electrical components that contained PCBs that were manufactured when it was still legal remain in use.
Vaccine guidelines for pregnant people were also removed from the CDC website, which The New York Times noted may have been due to use of the gender-neutral term "pregnant people". [3] One employee said that since HIV -related webpages commonly referenced gender, they had to "take everything down in order to meet the deadline."
The CDC recommends universal indoor masking in schools located in areas where COVID-19 community transmission levels are high. According to the agency’s most current data , about 34% of counties ...
Full map including municipalities. State, territorial, tribal, and local governments responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States with various declarations of emergency, closure of schools and public meeting places, lockdowns, and other restrictions intended to slow the progression of the virus.