Sometimes, the news comes faster than you can write about it. While many of us at the Poughkeepsie Journal were focusing on information and answers on the local heroin crisis — and yours truly was ...

EASTHAMPTON -- A recent rainstorm brought down a wooden utility pole with an old electrical transformer, releasing 15 gallons of PCB-laden oil near the Connecticut River oxbow. Eversource reported the ...

More than 49,000 pounds of old electrical equipment and oil containing hazardous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, have been flown out of Japan for a stateside destination, a U.S. Embassy ...

“Sure enough … it was PCB oil,” said Cynthia Yost, who was among teachers who sent pieces of carpet and classroom air filters to a lab. Tests found elevated levels of the toxic chemicals, used as ...

This Fail of the Week is a twofer. On the left we have an attempt to heat the output of an oil expeller. After a bountiful crop of sunflower seeds [Mark] picked up the oil expeller to make is own ...

People buying certain fish oil supplements to get the benefit of omega-3 fatty acids are ingesting chemicals banned in 1979, according to Monday aimed at forcing manufacturers to warn consumers. The ...

Several makers of fish oil supplements, and retailers CVS, GNC and Rite Aid have been hit with a lawsuit under California's Proposition 65. The suit, filed Tuesday in the state's Superior Court in San ...

Firefighters battle a blaze at TCI of New York in West Ghent, N.Y., on Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. (Lance Wheeler / Special to the Times Union) Firefighters assemble a portable weather station to ...

MONROE, Wash. — At first, teachers at Sky Valley Education Center simply had students evacuate and used fans to clear the air when the fluorescent lights caught fire or smoked with noxious fumes. When ...