Mandatory Testing for PCBs in Schools 

50 Years Later, Greenpoint Middle School Finally Cleaned of Toxic Soil
 

NYS Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal's proposed bills A05374A,A09805A for PCB legislation?

The Westport School's PCB clean-up?

NYC Council's sent a letter about PCBs to EPA Regional 1 Administrator Judith Enck?
 

The teacher's union taking their own samples up in Worcester, Massachusetts?
 

The Estabrook School District has PCB contamination?
 

A building at the University of Rhode Island was contaminated due to PCBs in the window caulking and other building materials?
 

Mahar Hall at SUNY Oswego had PCB-laden window caulk?
 

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst's PCB had contaminated caulk and soil?
 

The Talbot-Middle-School was proactively tested for PCBs?
 

PCB sampling of buildings were done in San Francicso?
 

PCBs Could Pose RIsk for Property Buyers and Sellers, and Affect Values?
 

Ray Wiley, manager of Bridgeport's school construction projects said that Oscar's Abatement of
Hartford caused a breach of the PCB containment by letting the contamination go further into the building,

necessitating additional cleaning and testing?
 

There was PCB contamination in roof glue at Westport Middle School?
 

The Yorktown School District and Monsanto agreed to a settlement?
 

The NYC City Council's letter to EPA Regional Administrator Enck?
 

NYS Assemblywoman Rosenthal's proposed PCB Legislation?
 

The teacher's union were taking their own samples up in Worcester, Massachusetts?
 

There was PCB contamination at the Estabrook School District?
 

Parents and politicians urged city for PCB testing at 740 schools across New York
 

The NYC Pilot Study found elevated PCB air levels in Broooklyn School PS 309?
 

About the Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM)?
 

EPA's settled with the New York City Board of Education?
 

EPA has an Air Exposure Estimator Tool?
 

Connecticut Technical High School System will test caulk at 12 of its older, un-renovated buildings for the presence of PCBs
 

PCBs in Schools and Corporate Responsibility for Remediation: Yorktown Central School District v. Monsanto Company by Law Professor Valerie Watnick
 

A parent in the Bronx filed a lawsuit against the NYC Board of Education to remove contaminated caulking?
 

A lawsuit filed by the Yorktown School District against Monsanto?
 

Congressmen Crowley and Serrano successfully included PCB cleanup in the National Green Schools Initiative?
 

A number of New York City pubic schools have hazardous levels of PCBs in the window and masonry caulking?
 

A number of New York City public schools have PCB contaminated soil?

Schools built between the 1930s to 1980 can have hazardous levels of PCBs in the window and masonry caulking?
 

PCBs in window caulking can volatize into your child's classroom?
 

In utero exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls in concentrations slightly higher than those in the general population can
have a long-term impact on intellectual function?
 

Studies have found elevated blood levels of low chlorinated PCBs in children and teachers attending schools with PCBs window caulking?
 

PCBs can leak out of joint sealant and contaminate the surrounding soil and indoor air?
 

As a result of PCBs in the window caulking, the Yorktown Central School District, New York removed 40 feet of PCBs contaminated soil extending out from the eastern side of the school building, and 10 feet of soil extending out from the rest of the building?
 

Masonry caulking on the front columns at the French Hill Elementary School in Yorktown Heights had 60,000 ppm of PCBs (equivalent to 6.0% PCBs)?
 

PCBs had migrated/leached to the surface of masonry caulking? The wipe sample of the caulk yielded 22,700 ug/100 cm2.
 

A piece of window caulking from the French Hill Elementary School contained 277,600 ppm of PCBs?
 

A building at the University of Rhode Island was contaminated due to PCBs in the window caulking and other building materials?
 

SUNY Oswego has PCBs contaminated soil?
 

Mahar Hall at SUNY Oswego had PCB-laden window caulk?
 

SUNY New Paltz PCB contamination in four residential dorms and other buildings? 
 

New Bedford High School has PCB contaminated caulk and soil?
 

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has PCB contaminated caulk and soil?
 

The library at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst had PCB contaminated indoor air?
 

That construction workers who handle caulking material generally have no knowledge of its PCBs content and may contaminate themselves and your child during the removal process?
 

The Stockholm Convention requires governments to take steps to reduce the release of PCBs with the goal of their minimization and, where feasible, ultimate elimination?
 

PCBs can also be absorbed through the skin following contact with contaminated caulking, equipment, water, or soil?
 

Tthe standard procedure to carry out sanitation of PCB-containing sealants is to carefully remove the sealant with a knife and then grind 1-2 mm in the concrete?
 

About the EPA Draft Approval and Denver Water Plan to Encapsulate PCB Contaminated Concrete at the Martson Basin #4?