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 ...

GREENSBURG - A Decatur County homeowner has serious questions for a power company. An old power pole snapped in two, causing a transformer to crash through the roof of Johnnie Watson's Greensburg home ...

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 ...

The government has warned the public against applying transformer oil or any other electrical equipment oil to the body or using it for non-industrial purposes, citing serious health and environmental ...

PCBs are a health risk because they build up in the environment, accumulating in the tissue of fish and other aquatic animals. In addition to causing cancer, PCBs can affect brain development and ...

Accra, Sept. 3, GNA - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started a programme to eliminate transformers and capacitors that contain a chemical called Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) which ...

Environmentalists and stakeholders in the electricity industry have urged relevant authorities to dispose of the old transformers with Polychlorinated Biphenlys (PCBs), saying they posed a serious ...

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 ...