We’ve reduced printed circuit board design to practice so much that we hardly give a thought to the details anymore. It’s so easy to bang out a design, send it to a fab house, and have ten boards in ...

Nearly a half century after the U.S. banned PCBs, communities around the Great Lakes are still digging the toxic chemical out of waterways.

It’s never been easier to get a printed circuit board made. In fact, almost every electronics video out on the internet will ...

Building materials used in a California school are sparking a nationwide debate about the safety of students. The dispute involves toxic chemicals known as PCBs that were discovered in Malibu ...

PCBs were domestically manufactured for construction materials in the United States beginning in about 1930 until 1979, a time period that coincides with a boom in school construction to meet the ...

Navigating her boat toward a wooden platform floating in an idyllic New Hampshire lake where "On Golden Pond" was filmed, biologist Tiffany Grade spotted what she had feared. An olive brown loon's egg ...

Our democracy depends on good journalism. Donate now to keep Vermont news free. Burlington High School students are learning remotely because of PCB contamination. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger ...

With demand booming for printed circuit boards, the U.S. government is trying to boost domestic production to move away from reliance on China.

PCBs emerge in the world of construction as an attractive and efficient tool for ensuring that caulking and other processes are long-lasting. These chemicals were particularly appealing for builders ...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, are stable man-made organic compounds. That was their value to industry and in the past few decades that has been the problem. They were used from the 1920s as ...

HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) — Navigating her boat toward a wooden platform floating in an idyllic New Hampshire lake where “On Golden Pond" was filmed, biologist Tiffany Grade spotted what she had feared.

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