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Boston Globe Article Highlights PCBs in Caulk Issue
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| Author |
Beth Daley
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| Source |
The Boston Globe
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| Publication Date |
9/6/2009
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| Short Description |
An article in the Sunday Boston Globe shines a spotlight on a challenging regulatory and financial issue facing a few colleges and universities in the northeast. The issue is that window and masonry caulking in school buildings in New England, built pre-1970, may contain elevated levels of PCBs that can gradually be released into the air or soil, posing a potential health risk to students and staff, according to EPA Region 1. In addition, the costs associated with sampling, monitoring and disposal of materials or soil found to contain PCBs at levels greater than 50 ppb may be crippling, according to experts familiar with the cases in New England.
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| Topic Areas |
Air; Land & Buildings; Emergency Management; Pollutants/Toxics/Asbestos; Waste-Hazard Solid Medical
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| Regulation Type |
State
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| Federal Act |
TSCA
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| Campus Area |
Campus Housing; Waste Management
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| State |
Massachusetts
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| Region |
Region 1
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