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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

paid a routine visit to two customers to pick up 1,300 gallons of used oil. The difference this time, the company says: The oil was contaminated with the long-banned but long-lasting industrial ...