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  2. Jury orders Bayer to pay $100 million over PCBs in ... - AOL

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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 ...

  3. Polychlorinated biphenyl - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Monsanto hit with $165 million verdict over PCBs in Seattle ...

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    A U.S. jury has ordered Bayer's Monsanto to pay $165 million to employees of a school northeast of Seattle who claimed chemicals made by the company called polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs ...

  5. Poe Hall timeline: When did NC State know about PCBs ... - AOL

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    Test results conducted in the fall showed the presence of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls — toxic, man-made chemicals that were banned from being produced in the United States in 1979.

  6. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on education in the United ...

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    In 2020, school systems in the United States began to close down in March because of the spread of COVID-19. This was a historic event in the history of the United States schooling system because it forced schools to shut-down. At the very peak of school closures, COVID-19 affected 55.1 million students in 124,000 public and private U.S ...

  7. Bioremediation of polychlorinated biphenyls - Wikipedia

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    Bioremediation of PCBs is the use of microorganisms to degrade PCBs from contaminated sites, relying on multiple microorganisms' co-metabolism. Anaerobic microorganisms dechlorinate PCBs first, and other microorganisms that are capable of doing BH pathway can break down the dechlorinated PCBs to usable intermediates like acyl-CoA or carbon ...

  8. Electronic waste - Wikipedia

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    The growing consumption of electronic goods due to the Digital Revolution and innovations in science and technology, such as bitcoin, has led to a global e-waste problem and hazard. The rapid exponential increase of e-waste is due to frequent new model releases and unnecessary purchases of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), short ...

  9. US public schools banned over 10K books during 2023-2024 ...

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    Public schools and libraries across the U.S. are still facing a rise of book challenges due to recent state and local policies that have accelerated efforts to censor certain materials, according ...