Indiana University, EPA to study airborne PCBs
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- The elevated PCB levels in U.S. lakes and rivers that led to hundreds of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fish consumption advisories in 2003 may be the result of not only the toxin's persistence underground but also its diffusion through the air....... To investigate the phenomenon, the EPA announced today (Sept. 27) that it would continue its collaboration with Indiana...Carnegie Mellon researcher tests tools for protecting Anacostia River ecosystem from PCBs
PITTSBURGH-- A sediment-capping mat developed by Carnegie Mellon engineers and CETCO (Arlington Heights, IL) soaks up dangerous PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) and could prevent their long-term release into waterways, according to the researchers, who are evaluating it in field trials in Washington D.C.'s contaminated Anacostia River. ...In hundreds of contaminated waterways across the country,...Latest findings on PCBs to be subject of June workshop at Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Some 200 scientists from around the world will gather June 13-15 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to discuss their latest findings on the health effects of exposure to PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) -- long-lasting chemicals manufactured and widely used before being banned or restricted since the late 1970s.... ...The talks at the will be review...Men with higher levels of PCBs more likely to father boys
A Michigan State University study indicating that men with higher levels of PCBs in their bodies are more likely to father boys than girls is more evidence of the effects environmental contaminants can have on the human body. ...... The study, using data from three separate studies in which PCB levels were measured in the bodies of men who ate fish taken from Lake Michigan, found that of the 208...Microbe first to break down PCBs
BALTIMORE, Md. --A first strain of bacterium that breaks down tough chlorine bonds of the pollutant PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls, in estuarine sediment is reported in the current issue of the journal Environmental Microbiology by scientists with the University of Maryland Biotechnology (UMBI). ... In experiments repeated many times on bottom sediments from Baltimore harbor, researchers of UMB...Breast Milk Of Women Who Eat Lake Ontario Fish Contains High Levels Of PCBs, UB Study Finds
. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Women who eat fish from Lake Ontario have significantly.higher levels of PCBs and pesticides in their breast milk than women who do not.eat Lake Ontario fish, results of a study of lactating women in the New York.State Angler Cohort has shown.. . Findings in the study, conducted by researchers from the University at.Buffalo, also showed that concentrations of the...... ... .........From evidence of lingering DDT damage, to questions about artificial wetlands as...habitat, to the uses of a dynamic ecosystem evaluation and monitoring tool, USGS...scientists will present a variety of wildlife research findings at the annual...meeting of The Wildlife Society at the Buffalo Convention Center, Buffalo, N.Y.,...Sept. 22-26, 1998. ... ...... Native Animals Snub Ex...